"You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture."

-- Howard Hodgkin

#Winning Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“Austerity need not be Europe's fate.”
“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.30
“I need a focus group like I need a hole in my head.”

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“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”
“The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.”
“When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.”
“To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.365
“Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.”

Source : Nyanaponika Thera, Nanamoli Thera (1998). “The Four Sublime States & The Practice of Loving Kindness: Contemplations on Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity & As Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon”, p.27, Buddhist Publication Society

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