"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."

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Source : "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 36 (1751)

Thomas Gray

#Path Quotes #Glory Quotes #Graves Quotes

“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes â€“ the brush doesnâ€™t touch the surface on the canvas, itâ€™s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.”
“History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.”

Source : "A Critic's Defeatist Rhetoric" by David Asman, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2005.
“I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.”
“The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
“What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.”
“Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc.”
“In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.”
“My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.”

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