“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.” FirstsLooksLittlesArtStillsWarFactsPastRememberFallCenturyObjectsEasierErrorsDecadesInevitableSurvivedAdoreGreat ArtNazismRise And FallEruptionWar Of 1812 Author:Michael Cunningham
“Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.” LooksDoneOrderPoorAcceptingTeacherMarkErrorsExtremesMotiveSpiteReliefPriestsBlessFoundersNewmanCommemoration Author:John Henry Newman
“This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.” LooksMadeStatesAmericaPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRegretJudgmentErrorsUnited States Of AmericaI RegretColossal Author:John F. Kerry