"Every line of true knowledge must find its completeness as it converges on God, just as every beam of daylight leads the eye to the sun. If religion is excluded from our study, every process of thought will be arrested before it reaches its proper goal. The structure of thought must remain a truncated cone, with its proper apex lacking."

-- Robert Dabney

#Eye Quotes #Goal Quotes #Daylight Quotes

“I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even when I go to the National Portrait Gallery, I'm not thinking about the sitter; I'm thinking about how the artist chose that color or that highlight. It becomes about the time, place, and context.”
“When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.”
“My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.”

Source : Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”
“The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.”
“A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!”

Source : Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.73
“Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.”

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