"I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!"

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Mark Rothko

#Thinking Quotes #Make You Think Quotes #Pretty Picture Quotes

“Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.”
“Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.”
“I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.”
“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”
“It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.”
“I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.”

Source : Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.12, Harper Collins
“One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.”

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