Pope Paul VI
“Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
Winston Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Ben Hecht
“Love is a hole in the heart.”
Edward Young
“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.”
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George Will
“Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.”
William Butler Yeats
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
John Donne
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
Peter Benchley
“If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man…
Albert Camus
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Aristophanes
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
James Russell Lowell
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”
Blaise Pascal
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Rudyard Kipling
“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.”
Alfred de Musset
“One must not trifle with love.”
Bette Davis
“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.”
Khalil Gibran
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and…
Charles Kettering
“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on…
Thomas Aquinas
“Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a…
Duke Ellington
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous…
James Thurber
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.”
Aristotle
“Nature does nothing in vain.”
e. e. cummings
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
John Updike
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”