"The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward."

-- Jose Bergamin

#Men Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Coward Quotes

“When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, thatâ€™s what scares me about the game. Iâ€™m a Baptist, but Iâ€™m also a quarterback killer, and I ainâ€™t praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.”
“The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge
“Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.”
“I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions.”
“A comprehended god is no god.”
“The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.”

Source : M. J. Rose (2016). “The Witch of Painted Sorrows: A Novel”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“When I was making a shift... from one thing to another I didn't want to be answering questions: 'How come you're doing this?' 'How come you're doing that?' so I didn't allow anyone in my studio and I just worked away in there.”
“If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.”

Source : Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.170, CUA Press

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