"I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked."

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Source : 1889 Diary.

Edvard Munch

#Art Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Blood Quotes

“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.”
“We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there”
“The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.”
“I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.”
“But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.45
“To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.”

Source : William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
“Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And itâ€™s a terrible thing. Iâ€™m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me”
“For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.”

Source : "At Houston lecture, Scalia explores Christian virtues and economic systems". www.houstonchronicle.com. September 6, 2013.

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