“No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.” IfsMenInspirationalMotivationalTurnsAdvantageRegardThyself Author:Seneca the Younger
“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted.” FirstsArtCharacterLightEyeTurnsObjectsColorMastersDegreesHighestMarkRegardExcellenceShadeStrokes Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy
“There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.” FeelsMadeStatesFactsTurnsVictoryOppositesResponsibleRegardLuckAffairCreditCuriousFaithfulAllies Author:William Matthews
“the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.” IfsWholeGovernmentTurnsQualityRegardRateTongueCorporationsRepresentativesAshesInferiorsFlavorSecond RateRepresentative Government Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.” LyingHumanityTurnsReligiousLateRegardInstitutionsRemainsIllLikesUsualModestyTwistsCompulsionDisgraceGod ImageMein KampfTwists And Turns Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf
“Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.” LongHappensEarthTurnsTermHappenedEffectsConsequenceRegardSpeciesEnvironmentalLong TermMarsExtinctionVenusGreenhousesRunawayKnobs Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson