Franta Painting Quotes

#1. One writes to find words' meanings.

Joy Williams

#2. The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

Andre Malraux

#3. To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

J.R. Rim

#4. A good reputation is better than fame.

Louis Dudek

#5. I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Natalie Portman

#6. But a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it.

E. M. Forster

#7. You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

#8. One of the things you need to understand is that I'm not a brave person.
I don't put up with being messed around, and I don't suffer fools gladly.
The short version of that is that I'm a bitch. Trust me, I can produce
character references. But that's something else. I'm not brave.

Robin McKinley

#9. I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.

Benjamin Carson

#10. I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

David Finckel

#11. More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

Gregory David Roberts

#12. I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

Zaha Hadid

#13. There was money enough ... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed through a stony waste. No one would understand her- no one would pity her- and he, who did both, was powerless to come to her aid.

Edith Wharton

#14. When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.

Elizabeth George