Zabeth Naive Painter Quotes & Sayings

In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place in proportion as it was unacknowledged. In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their believe that Gold had planned for practically everybody before they were born an nasty surprise when they died. Later, when Sandy read John Calvin, she found that although popular conceptions of Calvinism were sometimes mistaken, in this particular there was no mistake, indeed it was but a mild understanding of the case, he having made it God's pleasure to implant in certain people an erroneous since of joy and salvation, so that their surprise at the end might be the nastier. — Muriel Spark

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured. — Epicurus

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery. — Patricia Aburdene

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is. — L. Ron Hubbard

Hetty did not understand how anybody could be very fond of middle-aged people. And — George Eliot

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro. — James Howell

Love can make up for a lot. — Sarah Dessen

I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'. — Richard Rogers

I'll never know how to love you the right way if I don't also know how to be your friend, Mia. — Bella Andre

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better. — Theodore Roosevelt

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels. — Mary Wortley Montagu

The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art ... — Keren Ann

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die. — Bill Maher

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it. — Timothy Geithner