Obliterating Paint Quotes & Sayings

She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Be the best leave the rest! — Alice Williams

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I'd always worried but kissing's not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do. Kissing spins you, like Flying Tea-Cups. Oxygen the girl breathes out, you breathe in. — David Mitchell

Of course, the idea that a state, any more than a corporation, commits crimes, is a fiction. Crimes always are committed only by persons. While it is quite proper to employ the fiction of responsibility of a state or corporation for the purpose of imposing a collective liability, it is quite intolerable to let such a legalism become the basis of personal immunity. — Robert H. Jackson

Blissfully unaware of the beautiful tradition they'd been chosen to uphold. — Tom Perrotta

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. — William Howard Taft

Every family should have at least three children. Then if one is a genius the other two can support him. — George Gibson Coote

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic. — Wesley Clark