"There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

#Saint Quotes #Medieval Quotes #Disillusionment Quotes

“As an artist, I've been very fortunate.”
“I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.”
“Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.”
“Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.”
“We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.”
“All perishes, all decays, all is born again.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (1911). “King-Hunger: Translated from the Russian by Eugene M. Kayden”
“All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.”
“I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.”

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