"You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Whoâ€™s saved? Whoâ€™s not?"

-- Amy Tan

#Saving Quotes #Pay Quotes #Intention Quotes

“Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.”
“What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape.”
“Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.”
“All cats are grey in the dark.”

Source : Thomas Lodge, Donald Beecher, Henry D. Janzen, Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2005). “A Margarite of America (1596)”, p.131, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
“When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.”

Source : "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.
“Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.”
“My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didnâ€™t want to cause any unhappiness nowâ€”in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasnâ€™t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.”
“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists Â– in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244

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