Obra De Arte Quotes & Sayings

In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs. — Hannu Rajaniemi

Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. — Jorge Luis Borges

... they all have a place and purpose of their own. They have their own dignity and their own destinies to fulfill, in a plan ultimately beyond any man's power to know. — Wayne Pacelle

Your best friend knows some of your secrets,
your life partner knows many of them,
you know most of them,
but God knows all of the secrets of your heart. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are. — Grant Morrison

If you force me to pay a debt that is not mine, let me thank you in the afterlife — Miguel El Portugues

Lord thy will be done in my life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The ardent youth of to-day would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road: you will not pick them up again afterwards! Old age is before you, threatening and terrible, and it will give you nothing back again! The grave is more merciful; on the tomb is written: "Here lies a man," but you can read nothing on the frigid, callous features of old age. — Nikolai Gogol

Religion is the master of creating dull and dim minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It seems to me they're not really happy unless they're at the same time on public display and at their worst. — Elaine Dundy

she seemed to me an intriguing soul — Anne Rice

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows. — Lucy Larcom

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road. — Gloria Steinem

There was never a mention, never a declaration or a decision. But the long hours of talking stopped. No more reading aloud, or music, or films. And after that there was simple physical affection, the two walking arm in arm, or Maharet at her reading with Mekare sitting motionless on a bench nearby. — Anne Rice