Frederic Leighton Quotes

#1. Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

James Whistler

#2. Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Ezra Taft Benson

#3. The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

John Muir

#4. Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.

Shane Claiborne

#5. I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

Eric Stoltz

#6. I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

Trisha Goddard

#7. I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Ana Gasteyer

#8. The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

Anne Lamott

#9. The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant H. McGill

#10. Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Lao-Tzu

#11. Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

Thomas Ligotti

#12. Dragos strode into the kitchen and looked at her and Liam. If people caught sight of him in his Wyr form, it would start a riot, and we would never get out of here.

Thea Harrison

#13. Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

Billy Bob Thornton

#14. Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.

B.H. Liddell Hart