Portending Harm Quotes

#1. Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Peter Thiel

#2. Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

Richard Carlson

#3. Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.

Wallace Stevens

#4. Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

Mick Napier

#5. Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This

Charles Murray

#6. To associate art with the artist is to forfeit art, because at this moment we are pushed into the arena of self-expression, and can be recognized only by what differentiates us from others.

Anthony Marais

#7. Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Georges Braque

#8. There are sights too beautiful to swallow. They stay on the rim of the eye; it cannot contain them.

Olivia Laing

#9. Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

Mary Harron

#10. Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie

Nicki Minaj

#11. Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

William J. Clinton

#12. I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.

Miriam Toews

#13. Man's security comes from within himself.

Manly Hall

#14. The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

William Shakespeare

#15. I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

Ian McKellen