"Great wealth often curses all who touch it."

-- Clarence Darrow

#Wealth Quotes #Curse Quotes

“Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.”

Source : James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358
“Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.”
“Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?”
“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”
“You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a speciï¬c moment is what drives it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage
“Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.”
“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”

You may also like:

Al Capone
Gangster
Billy Sunday
Evangelist
Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President
Charles Lindbergh
Aviator
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
John T. Scopes
Teacher
Marcus Garvey
Publisher
Warren G. Harding
29th U.S. President
William Jennings Bryan
Former United States Secretary of State