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“He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.”

Should Sometimes Masters Slavery Slave

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”

Way Should Kind Sometimes Seems Care Law Spirituality Wish Difficult Highest Treats Be Good Treated Awards Should I I Care Fulfilling Payment Way To Live

Author:Philip Gulley

“I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.”

Thinking Men Art Sometimes Painting Members Drawing Being Me Proceeding

Author:Michelangelo

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.”

Sometimes Fool Foolishness

Author:George Herbert

“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Lasts Born Mines One Day Understood Praise Affection Delight Sentences Immortality Understand Me True Family

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.”

People Life Sometimes Moments Stories Pain Life Is Perfect Worst Laughter Response Judgement Judged Harsh Uncles Grandparent Aunt Hypocrite Showing Up Hanging On

Author:William J. Clinton

“Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.”

Giving Sometimes Brain Talent

Author:Mike Ditka

“Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.”

Men World Sometimes Understanding Ignorance Conquer Great Power Lack Of Understanding Conquer The World

Author:Anatole France

“God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.”

Men Humans Sometimes Reason Degrees Highest Capable Madness Mad Credit Wicked Wickedness Human Reason

Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Sometimes Eye Culture Watches Loud Editors Vulgar Amusement Amused Duplicate Intervening Brash Regan

Author:Judith Regan

“Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.”

Mean Two Ideas Sometimes Happens Together Artist Working Together Right Ideas

Author:David Guetta

“The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.”

Men Giving Sometimes Worst Advice Deeds Our Thoughts Best Advice

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.”

Sometimes Easier Reflection Madness Self Reflection

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.”

Giving Littles Sometimes Feelings Behinds Standing Patience Behind You Dictating

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!”

Sometimes Memories Weak Obedient Bewildered Mansfield Park Beyond Control

Book:Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes

Source: Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes

“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”

Want Sometimes Perfect Pieces Tree Tears Mountain Perfection Lakes

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.”

Kind Sometimes Fashion Painting Goes On Realistic Realism Abstraction

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”

Thinking Feels May Littles Sometimes Artist Business

Author:John Ruskin

“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”

Sometimes Hard Differences History Smell

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.”

Sometimes Inspiration Animal Patterns Print Leafs Texture Bark Layout

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.”

Sometimes Eye Novel Sky Mirrors Blue Mud Highways

Author:Stendhal

“Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated”

Ifs Sometimes Stuff Jew Baskets Laundry Drawers

Author:Franz Kafka

“An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.”

Sometimes Artist Brain Scientist Flair

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets.”

Made Sometimes Humor Funny Night Fall Clothes Blanket

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”

“When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.”

People Knows Want Ends Sometimes Beautiful Rooms Hotel Hiding Drawers Hotel Rooms Housekeeping

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It's a question of picking out what one wants from nature.”

Want Stills Sometimes Whole Nature Subjects Contrary Making Changes Whole Picture

Book:Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

Source: Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard

“A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Sometimes Moments Body Hands Faces Desire Gratitude Urges Overwhelming Pulse Kneeling Deep Gratitude Overwhelming Urge

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.”

People Looks Sometimes Sides Comprehension

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.”

People Feels Sometimes Suffering Dying Pursuit Artistic Ashamed Fretting

Author:Claude Monet

“You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.”

Want Sometimes Light Running Lasts My Own Minutes Color Terrible Faults Chasing Intangible

Author:Claude Monet

“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.”

Sometimes Happens Eye Forget Ego Stranger Who I Am

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.”

May Sometimes Chance Destiny Travel Inspired Departure Be Inspired Bustle

Author:Madame de Stael

“Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.”

Sometimes Feelings Life Is Joy Life Is Great

Author:Jackie Gleason

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.”

Sometimes Lost Realizing Journey Woods Pray Love Eat Pray Love Book Eat Pray And Love Eat Love Pray Bali Eat Pray Love

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just have to play through it. I've never really been injured before.”

Trying Littles Sometimes Play Baby Percent Conferences Fatigue Injured

Author:Bobby Jones

“Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.”

Trying Sometimes Happens Effort Make It Happen

Author:Ken Venturi

“I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?”

Thinking May Sometimes Dream Body Wonder Impossible Impossibility

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”

Sometimes Seasons Ships Drivers Grounded Carts Monsoons Skipper

Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

“In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.”

Should Sometimes Reason Order Understanding Growth Common Cutting Phrases Unnecessary Superfluous

Author:Eli Siegel

“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.”

Knows Want Two Important Sometimes Reason Religion Sin Answers Pride Machines Presses Phones Supreme Avarice Supreme Being Sin Of Pride

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“Terrorist threats are not happening just in this country, but in every European country and every country across the globe. As a result of that, we do sometimes have to take measures we would rather not take in order to give us the security we need.”

Needs Giving Country Sometimes Order Results Security Happenings Threat Terrorist Globes European Countries

Author:Tony Blair

“The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.”

People Stills Sometimes Goal Creative Wall Strive Critical Flexibility Persistent Creative People And Off Hallmark Off The Wall Probing

Book:A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative

Source: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative

“It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.”

People World Sometimes Wanted Artist Difficult Decided Observation Visuals Facility Examining

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.”

Sometimes Life Is Steps Path Journey Constant Oneself Opening Rough Smooth

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings

“To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.”

Ifs World Sometimes Jobs Lost Difficult Ancient Profession Housewife Ungrateful Catalogues

Book:Sixpence in Her Shoe

Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe

“Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.”

Sometimes Strength Greatness Weakness Delight Borrowed

Author:Meher Baba