"There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution."

-- Keith O'Brien

#Doubt Quotes #Influence Quotes #Institutions Quotes

“I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.”
“The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say”
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
“Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.”
“Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.”
“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”
“With bad girls, you can't go as many places as you can with a good girl. But, it is fun to play the bad girl because you always get the better wardrobe!”
“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.”

Source : Leo Steinberg (1975). “Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art”, Oxford University Press, USA

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