Art Quotes - Page 762

Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.

We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get their opinions before making decisions, or if you pay too much attention to what other people say about what you create, that it really pollutes your expression. I think that I'm much more about pure art and honesty and expressing exactly what I feel, and not caring so much what anyone says. However, I do respect, and I do pay attention to everyone's comments. And I do take them into consideration. But I don't base my decisions by it

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Donald Trump has the benefit of the fact that he's dominated media coverage, I mean, literally dominated media coverage because of the outrageous things he says and so forth. That's going to end here. There's going to be real fight now for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. And it is not - I will do whatever it takes to prevent it from being taken over by a con artist.

We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go to malls dressed as Jesus, and I like to then walk around the mall and go, 'No! No! This wasn't what it was supposed to be about, people!' Then if there's a Santa at the mall, I walk up to him and say, 'Listen, fat man, you're just a clown at my birthday party.'

A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.