Titian Venus Quotes & Sayings

The normally ninety-minute drive from Marin to Muir Woods only took about an hour. — Seanan McGuire

I suspected that the man was ailing, ailing in the spirit in some way, or in his temperament or character, and I shrank from him with the instinct of the healthy. — Hermann Hesse

As a manager, you need to make professional friends and contacts, not BFFs. — Chad Halverson

He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she tests her majestic allure with cold satisfaction. He looks as though his task were becoming burdensome enough. The picture is painted flattery. Later an 'expert' in the Rococo period baptized the lady with the name of Venus. The furs of the despot in which Titian's fair model wrapped herself, probably more for fear of a cold than out of modesty, have become a symbol of the tyranny and cruelty that constitute woman's essence and her beauty. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Books are like bacon for the mind. — Thomas F. Shubnell

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it. — Jess Lair

There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over as work time, consumption time, or marketing time. — Jonathan Crary

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections. — Noam Chomsky

Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth "clear as the sun, fair as the moon," and what besides - why, "amazing as an army with
banners"! A consistent Church is an amazing Church - an honest, upright Church would shake the world! The tramp of
godly men is the tramp of heroes; these are the thundering legions that sweep everything before them. The men that are
what they profess to be, hate the semblance of a lie - whatever shape it wears - and would sooner die than do that which is dishonest, or that which would be degrading to the glory of a Heaven-born race, and to the honor of Him by whose name they have been called! O Christians! You will be the world's contempt; you will be their despising, and hissing unless you live for one objective! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. — Pete Sessions

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. — Erich Fromm

At least I know the truth," I gritted back. "I'm not the one who's being lied to." His brow furrowed, and I spat the truth at him. — Julie Kagawa

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. — Gijs De Vries

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Why can't my life be more like a porno than a horror movie, — Annie Bellet