Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

A Fine Balance

Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

A Fine Balance

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

A Fine Balance

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.

A Fine Balance

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, "All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.

A Fine Balance

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Gone Girl

There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.

Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey Through Breast Cancer

A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome.

The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming a Great Leader

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Persuasion

I don’t know why you’re enjoying this so much.” “Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.

Princess of the Sword

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

I don't think the federal government should be involved in making life work, right? I mean, the enumerated powers - the state level is fine. The local level's fine. But not - I do not want the federal government trying to make my life work.

Dave Brat

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Feist

I think people don’t think I work, because I wear stilettos and look damn fine. But that’s discrimination against stilettos and against looking damn fine! And I object to this form of discrimination!

C. JoyBell C.

Ciascuno esamini i propri pensieri: li troverà sempre occupati dal passato e dall'avvenire. Non pensiamo quasi mai al presente, o se ci pensiamo, è solo per prenderne lume al fine di predisporre l'avvenire. Il presente non è mai il nostro fine: il...

Blaise Pascal

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Roberta Smith

All great art is praise.

Lectures on Art

This may not be art as art commonly goes; the lack of discipline, of control, would seem to rule it out of that category. And yet Woolrich's lack of control over emotions is a crucial element in his work, not only because it intensifies the fragility...

Francis M. Nevins Jr.

You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into anoth...

William Cory