"Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture."

-- Steven Saylor

#Distance Quotes #Details Quotes #Gazing Quotes

“Bernie Sanders campaign supporters feel that he is an outsider to the party, he`s not a Democrat, that he was unfairly treated, and the chair, you know, whether they admit it or not, they are on Hillary Clinton`s side.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.”
“The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.”
“The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.”
“The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony for Decorations for Bravery, June 23, 1995.
“Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.”
“I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But atheism that consists entirely in vacuous arguments afloat on oceans of historical ignorance, made turbulent by storms of strident self-righteousness, is as contemptible as any other form of dreary fundamentalism. And it is sometimes difficult, frankly, to be perfectly generous in oneâ€™s response to the sort of invective currently fashionable among the devoutly undevout, or to the sort of historical misrepresentations it typically involves.”
“They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.”

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