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“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”

Thinking Sometimes Seems Memories Half Honor Involved Remains Green Harm Graves Contradiction Logical Cemetery No Memory

Book:Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

Source: Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce

“The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.”

People Important Reason Suffering Half Issues Middle Century Conflict Remains East Regions Lasting Middle East Palestinian Israeli Turbulence Israeli Palestinian Conflict Half A Century

Author:Xi Jinping

“My personal favorite remains Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, first home game after Katrina vs. Tennessee on a Monday night. Getting goose bumps typing about it. It was so loud and emotional that I think everyone was exhausted by the second half.”

Thinking Firsts Home Night Games Half Emotional Remains Loud Exhausted Tigers Monday Stadiums Bumps Geese Katrina Tennessee Typing Rouge Lsu Baton Monday Night First Home Baton Rouge Tiger Stadium

Author:Pat Forde

“If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.”

Ifs Years Mean Has Beens Order Half Remains Preserves Contemplating Palestine Poland Half A Year

Author:Janusz Korczak

“For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.”

May Loses Existence Half Alive Prove Remains Illness Resistance Vitality Without Love Barren Will To Live

Book:Love or perish

Source: Love or perish

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

Thinking Men Long Change Hours Mistake Half Remains

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.”

Ifs Feels Night Hours Sleep Half Week Sweet Six Remains Seven Eight Spots No Sleep

Author:Sanjay Gupta

“Begin: To have commenced is half the deed. Half yet remains; Begin again on this and thou wilt finish all.”

Half Remains Deeds Begin Again

Author:Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.”

Thinking Knows World Has Beens Community Half Gone Lows Remains Fruit Oil Reserves

Author:Randall Robinson

“There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.”

“We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.”

Knows Want Looks Stills Real Actors Walks Half Roles Pieces Mouths Mirrors Remains Sticks Mere Corners Remove Disguise Bent Eyebrows Exaggeration Mockery

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full of hope, who filled the church on that March morning. All that remains in my memory is the touch of her lips and, when I half opened my eyes, the secret oath I carried with me and would remember all the days of my life.”

World Eye Remember Faces Church Memories White Secret Half Morning Dresses Remains Filled Lips Priests March Guests Her Eyes Oath Ivory All That Remains

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“I picked up my mocha and stood. The cup was still almost half-full, but I didn't want it anymore. Besides, it was now luke-warm. Which meant I didn't have to worry if it was scalding him when I tossed the remains in Ethan's face.I think Finn might have craked a smileas he held the door open for me, but I wasn't sure.”

Ifs Thinking Want Stills Might Faces Half Worry Doors Remains Warm Cups Luke Half Full Mocha

Author:Jenna Black

“The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.”

“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”

Children Half Clothes Remains Wit Emperor Prerogative Sandman

Author:Neil Gaiman

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory. . .”

Long Stills Memories Half Century Remains Unions Graves Kingdoms Presidential Fallen Empires Patriot Monument Half A Century

Book:Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

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