Tracers Database Quotes & Sayings

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? — Karen Joy Fowler

I went to him & put my Hand upon his Shoulder.
Said he to me, "God forgive me. Her Name - I never knew her Name."
Which meant not a Jot to me - and yet my Heart was the Thing that broke. — M T Anderson

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that. — David Ortiz

Try and support any kind of hard working artist in some special kind of way -- it might just make their day. — Chris Mentillo

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized. — H. Rap Brown

Just as people are born, live a time, and die by diseases or old age, in the same way republics are formed, flower a few centuries, and perish finally by the audacity of a citizen, or by the weapons of their enemies. All has their period; all empires, and largest monarchies even, have only so much time: the republics feel continually that this time will arrive, and they look at any too-powerful family as the carriers of a disease which will give them the blow of death. — Frederick The Great

So ask me again why I'll win a battle of wills." "Fine." She jammed her feet under the covers. "Why?" "Because I'm immortal and you're a mere human. I have an eternity to out-stubborn you. — Larissa Ione

For a man, he has to learn how to get along without a woman for periods of time. For a woman, she has to learn how to get along without a man for periods of time. That's how men and women learn to be able to get along with each other. — Art Hochberg

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world. — Major Taylor