There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Being sexy isn't interesting for me, I always look at what people have inside.
Patricia Conde Galindo
Dont let yourself be destroyed by a force that was placed in our hearts in order to make everything better.
Paulo Coelho
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
Paulo Coelho
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
John Constable
Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.
Edmund Cooper
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad
Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
A dictum [Beckett] quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Dont invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
John Maxwell Coetzee
The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.
Confucius
There were few who thought him a starter, Many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM, an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht