Michelino Painting Quotes & Sayings

Social pressure makes a person depressed. — Kishore Bansal

I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor. — Frank Herbert

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable. — Azar Nafisi

Socialism" for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary, statism - in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics. "To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."9 — Leonard Peikoff

Joy keeps the soul alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman. — H.L. Mencken

What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was still standing on the corner of Queen and Albert Streets waiting for someone that he knew would never appear. He had long understood that one of his selves, the earliest and most vulnerable, had never left this place, and this original and clearest view of things could be recovered only through what had first come to him in the glow of its ordinary light and weather ... it was the light they appeared in that was the point, and that at least had not changed. — David Malouf

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. — David Brooks

I would be a disaster as a prime minister. — V. P. Singh

This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz — Esi Edugyan

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that. — Terence McKenna

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out. — Lefty Gomez

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity. — Joseph Joubert

Open, frank communication is the lynchpin to teamwork. A fractured team is like a fractured bone; fixing it is always painful and sometimes you have to re-break it to heal it fully - and the re-break always hurts more because it is intentional. — Patrick Lencioni

I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.' — Kimiko Glenn