Shuzz Art Quotes & Sayings

Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life. — Dan Simmons

Some people find fall depressing, others hate spring. I've always been a spring person myself. All that growth, you can feel Nature groaning, the old bitch; she doesn't want to do it, not again, no, anything but that, but she has to. It's a fucking torture rack, all that budding and pushing, the sap up the tree trunks, the weeds and the insects getting set to fight it out once again, the seeds trying to remember how the hell the DNA is supposed to go, all that competition for a little bit of nitrogen; Christ, it's cruel. — John Updike

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous. — Ice Cube

Nobody wants to be sold, but everyone wants to be helped. — John C. Maxwell

[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self. — William H Gass

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky. — Ryan Adams

Most people need, at least, a very strong ethical training. They tend to lack basic moral. And it's a waste of time to teach very important universal rules to someone that doesn't understand the meaning of helping others or feeling empathy for them. — Robin Sacredfire

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are. — Don DeLillo

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. — Larry McMurtry

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet. — Ivan Turgenev

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom. — Frances Fisher

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all. — Jacob M. Appel

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict. — Dorothy Garlock

He who has little will receive. He who has much will be embarrassed. — Laozi

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me. — Laurell K. Hamilton