Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
It's not blood that makes us who we are," Dad said. "It's family. And it's not blood that makes us family. It's love.
Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins
Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins
What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagin...
How many humans over thousands of years have stood thus with their horses, seeing in them the lines of universal perfection, the majesty of grace and power, feeling stronger and more beautiful themselves for their contact with the magical power of su...
I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a constraint, as strong as any belt. And this is certainly true, which makes it a good moral. Or it may be that we are all constrained in some way, eit...
Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of which you are the representative: cheap, ridiculous, but yet triumphant life, the everlasting antipodes and deadly enemy of beauty. I cannot say I de...
Life bends us, shapes us, molds us, makes us, and breaks us." ~Lucian Bane~
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
Love is stronger than justice.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.
I believe in signs....what we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect & attention to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take. When we are on the right path, we follow the signs, and ...
