"Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest."

-- Lupita Nyong'o

#Artist Quotes #Honest Quotes #Being An Artist Quotes

“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.”
“I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.”
“Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.”
“Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.”
“Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.”
“You can pay for school, but you can't buy class”

Source : Song: Swagga Like Us
“In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?”

Source : Robert Charles Winthrop (1878). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i.e. 1878”
“Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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