Top 12 Gauguin Biography Quotes
#1. You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.
Harry Turtledove
#2. Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
Benny Bellamacina
#3. Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Walter Kaufmann
#4. It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#6. There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart
Felicia Hemans
#7. As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest.
Macarius Of Egypt
#8. There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds
#9. At that moment he was unconscious of everything except his fear. He did not even know what he was afraid of: the fear itself possessed his whole mind, a formless, infinite misgiving. pg. 25
C.S. Lewis
#10. One must concede to others what one tolerates in oneself.
Muriel Barbery
#11. Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.
C.J. Anderson
#12. To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.
Richard Wilbur