Untier Knots Quotes & Sayings

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. — Balthus

People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked up anything heavy, worked hard, or eaten less than they wanted at every meal. This approach is, of course, wrong. And it has resulted in a lot of expensive, unattractive, and entirely preventable problems amongst people who seem puzzled about why things aren't going well. — Mark Rippetoe

Can still windmills, still produce wind? Can a heart still love, when a heart no longer is? — N'Zuri Za Austin

A child who was born with a silver spoon is likely to not appreciate all he is provided with.
And it is likely that a child who grew up from the dust to look down on others once the floods gate of success opens up for him.
It is NOT where you come FROM that matters,
But where you are GOING. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident. We can start to break free from this torture by recognizing that the evenings that don't work out are really just a minor species of bad luck. The — Alain De Botton

I'm try-sexual. I try anything that's sexual. — Shahrukh Khan

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115 — Sonia Sotomayor

Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences. — Cynthia Hand

That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair. — Bucky Harris

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. — Peter T. King

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do. — Malcolm Forbes

Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west. — Samuel P. Huntington

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life. — Elizabeth Goudge

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. — Gabriela Mistral

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. — Warren E. Burger

Our gods did not come to us in any specific form, but we held them in our hearts and understood them in our own way. — Natsuo Kirino