"If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents."

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John Singer Sargent

#Light Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Tone Quotes

“If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?”

Source : Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn
“There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in the wind-it looks good in the small version, but in the big version, he looks like some kind of Italian fashion superhero or something. Like if the fashion police couldn't handle it, they'd call Simon, wearing a big S on his chest for some kind of fashion superhero.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .”
“The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.”
“When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.”

Source : "Glenn Beck's War Room". "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2009.
“Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized â€“ the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old....When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”
“I try not to worry about things that I can't control.”
“A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.”

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