"What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!"

-- Samuel Richardson

#Life Quotes #Wish Quotes #World Quotes

“Don't ever tell anyone where you bought something. If you get a complement say, "Thank you. I got it in Europe.”
“I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.”
“Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”
“I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.”
“But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.”

Source : Julius Lester (2009). “Guardian”, p.2, Harper Collins
“Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.”

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.147, Univ of California Press
“As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.”
“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is, by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl when they see that.”

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