"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."

-- Edward Hopper

#Believe Quotes #Records Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.”
“One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.”
“It is much easier not to struggle, to give up and take the path of the living dead. But if we want to live, we must struggle.”
“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
“To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854].”, p.18
“Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.”
“Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle.”
“Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.”

Source : "Timothy Geithner’s Legacy". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 24, 2013.

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