Merval 25 Quotes & Sayings

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system. — Tommy McCarthy

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions
being freer and more at ease as human beings. — Ingvar Kamprad

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [ ... ] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business. — Anne Lamott

As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred. — Albert Camus

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit. — Sydney Wayser

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition. — Rebecca West

Although he could have been wearing a seventies lounge suit and she probably would have drooled over the polyester. — J.R. Ward

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this! — Arthur Miller

Don't let your mandate come from the grumbling of the crowd. Get your cues from God and the mission He has given you. — John C. Maxwell

All suburban housing developments look alike, and besides, every Yankee who ever crossed the Potomac except Ulysses S. Grant got lost as soon as he reached the Virginia side. — Charles McCarry

It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. — Edward Bernays