"You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass."

-- Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

#Country Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.”
“An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.”
“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.”

Source : "The Turquoise Lament". Interview with John D. MacDonald, 1973.
“Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!”
“The Raven's house is built with reeds, â€” Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.”
“Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.”
“If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.”
“War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.”

Source : Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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