"Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Men Quotes #Merit Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”
“If you paint for product, you have to follow the rules that keep you on the track of your expectation. You have to calculate, organize, plan every move. When you paint for process, you listen to the magic of inner voices, you follow the basic human urge to experiment with the new, the unknown, the mysterious, the hidden. Process is adventure; product happens only within the parameters designed.”
“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.”
“If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.”
“Under Armour is new, aggressive, slick, classic but athletic - kind of how I always wanted to be perceived.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political”
“Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, â€˜put your hand on top.â€™ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.”
“Past happiness augments present wretchedness.”

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