Yerasimides Quotes & Sayings

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. — Simone De Beauvoir

The artists of this nation - state are, taken as one historical subject, one of 'latecomers' to the smorgasbord of the artistic pantheon.Even if Sweden as a nation-state thus seems to have been excluded from the world art history its contemporary arts infrastructure presently makes the country a much more vital place of production. — Charlotte Bydler

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered - no laughter, no tears, no purgation. — Mary McCarthy

So much of love is imagination -- its over-activity, its over-ambition, its over-the-top faith. — Gerry LaFemina

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. — Christian Nestell Bovee

One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad. — Leo Tolstoy

There is something strikingly different about the quality of photographs of that time. It has nothing to do with age or colour, or the feel of paper ... In modern family photographs the camera pretends to circulate like a friend, clicking its shutters at those moments when its subjects have disarranged themselves to present to it those postures which they would like to think of as informal. But in pictures of that time, the camera is still a public and alien eye, faced with which people feel bound either to challenge the intrusion by striking postures of defiant hilarity, or else to compose their faces, and straighten their shoulders, not always formally, but usually with just that hint of stiffness which suggests a public face. — Amitav Ghosh

Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I thought you were dead.
Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me. — Patricia Briggs

I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures. — Robin Marantz Henig

Play More, Pray More; Get More, Give More ... Live More!-RVM — R.v.m.

No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true. — Moffat Machingura

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on. — Georgina Kleege