Allegorical Paintings Quotes

#1. I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.

Sue Townsend

#3. My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

Eric Cantona

#4. Life isn't fair. Now be a good girl and come for your big bad vampire.

Tina Folsom

#5. Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Somewhere, somewhere in this house, lurked a problem. For some reason, Jane's legacy wasn't entirely benevolent.

Charlaine Harris

#7. Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

Richard Branson

#8. What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about, if we can't use it?

Madeleine Albright

#9. Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Xun Zi

#10. I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#11. Drew, a friend helping Loren in her research, "...This may be the most important class I've never paid for nor received credit hours for taking. Let's lift our glasses to Professor Finkel!

Kimberly Loving Ross

#12. Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

Victor Hugo

#13. Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Josh McDowell

#14. There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!

Mark Batterson

#15. This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

CLAMP