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“Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.”

People Feels War Ends Seems Lost Known Struggle Minutes Aliens Ties Coming Out Discomfort Confrontation Frivolous Resentful

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.”

Ifs Trying Ends Jobs Pay Building Exercise Concerned Folks Making Money Cinema Good Times Having A Good Time Parasites

Author:Russell Crowe

“My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.”

I Can Ends Taken Mouths Claims Bread Settling Paris Rejection Alas Hesitation Salons

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.”

Thinking Ends Forget Responsibility Morning Slave Evening Exhausted

Author:Claude Monet

“I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.”

Ifs Years Ends Left Achieve Havens Painting My Time Worthwhile

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.”

Should Ends Law Social Relation Regard Obedience Laws Of Nature Cradle Tombs Social Relations

Author:Hosea Ballou

“There's never an end for the sea.”

Author:Samuel Beckett

“I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.”

Writing Ends Joy Artist Reading Behinds Scene Pages Paint Delight Sentences Paradox Behind The Scenes Palette

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.”

Knows Ends Energy Creativity Creative Talent Activity Draws Mathematics Cooking Woods Drawing Disaster Experiments Imaginative Carving Drivel

Author:Julia Child

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.”

Giving Children Art Ends Wealth Virtue Our Children Adversity Your Children

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.”

World Littles Art Ends Felt Impossible Produce Despair Desperation Incidents Verge

Book:Heiligenstädter Testament

Source: Heiligenstädter Testament

“If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.”

Ifs Ends Language Natural Results Speech Thirds India Patterns Sentences Phrases Characteristics Reaching Appropriate Urban Juggling

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.”

Ends Poverty Luxury Republic Monarchy

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.”

Ideas Ends Knowledge Species Propagation

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.”

Way May Long Doe Ends Law Enjoy Fit Pursue Welfare Conception Accord

Book:Kant: Political Writings

Source: Kant: Political Writings

“Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue”

Humans Ends Humanity Principles Virtue One Thing Particular Adoption Metaphysical Compelled Realised Human Freedom

Author:Immanuel Kant

“In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.”

Way Ends Whole Society Prepared Shock Inward Decrease Annihilation Degeneration

Book:Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

Source: Force and Freedom: Reflections on History

“Many mornings I check out the news as soon as I wake up, because if it turns out that the world is coming to an end that day, I am going to eat the frosting off an entire carrot cake; just for a start. Then I will move onto vats of clam dip, pots of crime brûlée, nachos, M & M's etc. Then I will max out both my credit cards.”

Ifs World Ends Moving Turns Morning Crime Future News Wake Up Credit Checks Cards Etc Pot Cake Max Credit Card Dip Carrots Coming To An End Clams Vat Nachos

Author:Anne Lamott

“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”

Ends Lines Audience Jokes Curves Straight Lines

Author:Abe Burrows

“We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.”

Thinking Men Ends Play Artist Player Creator Destroying Manipulate Seducing Fabricate

Author:Jean Houston

“If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.”

Ifs Needs Looks Ends Nature Paint Canvas Organize Naturalism

Author:David Hockney

“I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.”

Trying Ends Seems Hours Mystery Goes On Fortune Sloth Indolence Squandering

Book:October

Source: October

“If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.”

Ifs Ends Process Confined

Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.”

Ends Imagination Illusion

Author:Meher Baba

“Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.”

Ends Time Driven Wit Nuts Urgent Wits End

Author:George Sand

“One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.”

Way Different Ends Achieve Stage Type Genius Different Ways Concentration

Author:Stephen Spender

“Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.”

People Ifs Men Want Should Mean Ends Shows Values Decision Economics Tasks Ultimate Aim Chosen Judgement Definite Scope Theoretical Attainment Valuation

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.”

Knows Ends Reason Action Individual Pleasure Acting Understood Greatest Pleasures

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”

Ifs Humans Wells Doe Ends Action Actors Impossible Response Stimulus Human Actions

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.”

Ends Society Movement Aim Finals Calm Permanent Utopian

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.”

Ends Social Democracy Streets Example Movement Wall Financial Ideology Eras Good Examples Financial Markets Occupy Wall Street Occupy Movement

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.”

Looks Heart Persons Made Ends Moments Realizing Interesting Communication Ecstatic Rare Moments

Author:Robert Motherwell

“To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.”

Way Ends Materials Picks Letters Wine My Way Labels Cigarette Old Letters

Book:Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages

Source: Robert Motherwell on paper: drawings, prints, collages

“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Ends Realizing Thousand Ten Decided

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”

Ifs Art Ends Reality Artist Degrees Odd Assumption Unconscious Contradiction Converses Dichotomy Layman

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

Knows Years Humans Ends School Winning Ability Education Study Figures Students Prize Copies

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”

People Ends Facts Stories Feelings Father Painting Please Letters Died Father Died Please Me

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.”

Ends Fear Seeing

Author:Guy Finley

“Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.”

Ends Remember Punishment Timber

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”

Ends Government Finals Restraint

Book:Memoir. Lectures and addresses

Source: Memoir. Lectures and addresses

“I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.”

People Thinking Art Important Ends Painting Art Is Importance The End Of The Day Looking Back Looking Forward

Author:Damien Hirst

“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”

Should Ends Self Earth Chance Failing Achieve Regret Confidence Equal Intellectual Should Have Permit Assurance Equilibrium Self Assurance

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.”

Way Ends Form Destination

Author:Paul Klee

“There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.”

Men World Ends Order Natural Roles Rights Conditions Duty Revolution Equal Driving Performing Rebellious Materialistic Roles In Life Materialistic World

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”

Mind Art Ends Answers Emotion Effects Produce Art Is Tests Productions Copies

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.”

Firsts Ends Betray Cautious Treachery

Author:Livy