Top 100 Quotes About Henri
#1. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'
Dennis Hull
#2. Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote about 'wounded healers.' I've come to see that there's no other kind. We are all wounded, and we are all called to take part in what God is doing to bring healing to those around us.
Mary Lou Redding
#3. Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
Aldous Huxley
#4. Well, I don't know no woman of breeding. (Bart)
And I am sure the ladies of the world over are now breathing a collective sigh of relief. (Henri)
Kinley MacGregor
#5. friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN
Laura Petherbridge
#6. Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived there although he had never been there.
John Steinbeck
#7. From all my talks with Henri, even the most cordial, I have always left with a slight taste of defeat; of also having been, somehow inadvertently, not a man to him, but an instrument in his hands.
Primo Levi
#8. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. - Henri Bergson
David Allen
#9. If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
Max Von Essen
#10. His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart.
Louise Penny
#11. In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?
Burton Silverman
#12. Don't give up on hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope ~Henri - I am number four
Pittacus Lore
#13. Maybe it's a reminder from Henri that you're supposed to rake the lawn.
Pittacus Lore
#14. Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.
Joel Sternfeld
#15. I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri ... My life began at this point.
George Bellows
#16. To have a good enemy, choose a friend: He knows where to strike. DIANF DE POITIERS, 1499-1566, MISTRESS OF HENRI II OF FRANCE
Robert Greene
#17. Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.
John Eldredge
#18. Well, did you know that the dinosaurs really didn't go extinct? Aliens were so fascinated by them that they decided to gather them all up and take them to their own planet. Henri
Pittacus Lore
#19. The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.
Albert Einstein
#20. Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself. - HENRI AMIEL
Leo Tolstoy
#21. In the kitchen Gamache's German shepherd, Henri, sat up in his bed and cocked his head. He had huge oversized ears which made Gamache think he wasn't purebred but a cross between a shepherd and a satellite dish.
Louise Penny
#22. My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.
Joshua Bell
#23. And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
William Eggleston
#24. Why would Henri come to her rescue? She was hardly charming. Her company was irritating at best. And she'd been a complete bitch to him. She'd even hit him. He probably preferred ladies who didn't curse or drink or sleep around.
Maggie LaCroix
#25. Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse
Volkmar Essers
#27. Watching the two of you is almost enough to make me believe Henri's crap about Loric only falling in love once."
-Six.
^This is asdfghjkl. Honestly, Four and Six is my OTP. But oh well, hurrah for love.
Pittacus Lore
#28. True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.
Kathleen Norris
#29. The beauty of Lorien. Will it again sustain life, or will Henri and I go on waiting here on Earth forever? I try to push the thoughts and images from
Pittacus Lore
#30. The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien.
'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along with guile and hemophilia.
Christopher Moore
#31. We are all are cripples in some way.
[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]
Irving Stone
#32. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.
Luther E. Vann
#33. Henri grabbed my face, looking deeply into my eyes. "Love you," he vowed. "Love you." Then he turned and clutched Eikko's arm. "And love you. My good friend. Very good friend.
Kiera Cass
#34. Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.
[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]
Michael Ruse
#35. What part of no magic did you not understand, Henri?
Maggie LaCroix
#36. I am slow here," Henri said, pointing to his mouth. "Not here." He pointed to his eyes.
Kiera Cass
#37. But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Jeanette Winterson
#38. Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
{Commenting on Henri Becquerel's process for extracting metals by voltaic means.}
Michael Faraday
#39. You couldn't forget [Pablo] Picasso, [Henri] Matisse and [Joan] Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.
Frank Stella
#40. Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.
Vince Aletti
#41. I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.'
Louise Rennison
#42. I am always doing what I thought I couldn't do because I Thought I might learn something.
Henri Marcel French Artist
Brenda H. Sedgwick
#43. In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest.
Feel for yourself.
Jeanette Winterson
#44. Always remember this, Henri. Men trade for profit. They are driven by greed. But debt is about fear, and fear is stronger than greed. The true power, the weapon that defeats all others, is debt. Fools search for gold. The wise man studies debt. That is the key to all business.
Edward Rutherfurd
#45. The same thing. I feel like such a fool to discover it only now. So blatantly obvious, right in front of my face. Another of Henri's adages: Those things that are most obvious are the very things we're most likely to overlook. But Henri knew.
Pittacus Lore
#46. never held a book before and reverently turned the pages, looking at the incomprehensible print and wishing she could understand the meaning of the words.
Henri drifted close to peer over her arm. "What's that?"
"A book. There be stories in here.
Debra Holland
#47. Without hard work, talent is not enough ~ Henri Mattise
Katrina Jack
#48. Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life," he said. "When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth.
William Peter Blatty
#49. I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.
Nick Zinner
#50. Henri had lost a lot of bodily functions when he died - he didn't eat, breathe, or sleep anymore - but other things had stayed, thankfully, such as his electrified response to Josie's tactile wandering.
Maggie LaCroix
#51. I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank.
Annie Leibovitz
#52. Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas.
Holland Cotter
#53. The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
Franz Wright
#54. Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#55. Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#57. Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#58. Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#59. The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
Henri Matisse
#60. THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.
Robert Henri
#61. It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.
Henri Poincare
#64. Seek the strongest color effect possible ... the content is of no importance.
Henri Matisse
#65. Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.
Henri Matisse
#67. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
Henri Nouwen
#68. Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
Henri Bergson
#69. An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of a being whom he does not conceive, and who is said to unite incompatible qualities.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#70. Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
Henri Bergson
#72. In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.
Henri Lebesgue
#73. [T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it ...
Henri Frederic Amiel
#74. I witness many signs of hope. I don't have to wait until all is well, but I can celebrate every little hint of the Kingdom that is at hand.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#75. The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other's lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder's of God's presence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#76. I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.
Henri Nouwen
#77. The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
Henri Matisse
#78. Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.
Henri Murger
#80. Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
Henri Matisse
#81. The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
Henri Pirenne
#82. Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.
Henri Nouwen
#83. What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
Henri Poincare
#84. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
Robert Henri
#85. Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.
Richard Hamming
#86. Anyone who believes that anything can be suited to everyone is a great fool, because medicine is practised not on mankind in general, but on every individual in particular.
Henri De Mondeville
#88. The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
Henri Nouwen
#89. Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.
Henri Matisse
#90. In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Henri Nouwen
#92. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#93. Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...
Robert Henri
#94. The memory of you saddened my joys, but consoled my sorrows.
Henri Barbusse
#95. Proximity to this death makes me nostalgic for the French language.
Henri Cole
#96. I feel like a jug in which wine is poured until it overflows.
Henri Cole
#97. To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
Henri Bergson
#98. Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.
Henri Matisse
#99. Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
Henri Nouwen
#100. But human withdrawal is a very painful and lonely process, because it forces us to face directly our own condition in all its beauty as well as misery.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
