Matriarchy Symbol Quotes & Sayings

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men. — Thomas Carlyle

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. — Joan Of Arc

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance. — Tina Maze

We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So we clearcut a part of the virgin forest and now part of our ecosystem has been wiped out. Some of it may grow back, and some of it won't. — Horst Rechelbacher

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind — Scott Lynch

I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime. — Werner Herzog

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing. — Ben Okri

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist. — Georg Brandes

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. — Jasper Johns

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant. — Bob Dylan

As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera. — Sandra Bullock

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama. — Marianne Williamson

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that? — Bob Saget

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art. — Clement Greenberg