Quotes About Tom Thomson

#1. Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

A. Y. Jackson

#2. The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Ben Okri

#3. Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

Edmund Phelps

#4. No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

Tom Thomson

#5. No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

Alexander Cockburn

#6. It will not always be summer; build barns.

Hesiod

#7. Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.

Tom Thomson

#8. From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

Manny Pacquiao

#10. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

David Heinemeier Hansson

#11. I'll stick to painting as long as I can.

Tom Thomson

#12. Easy means hard. Don't fool yourself. When everything looks great, something is wrong.

Kambiz Shabankareh

#13. Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ...

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. And I squinted hard trying to see Nikki's face and even from a block away I could tell she was smiling the whole time and was so very happy , and some how that was enough for me to officially end apart time and roll the credits of my movie without even confronting Nikki .

Matthew Quick

#15. Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

Tim Minchin

#16. I always have bananas with me for energy.

Samantha Bond

#17. If Hitch were a person, he'd be Mother Theresa or Gandhi or someone who treated all living creatures with the respect they deserve. It's depressing how my dog is a better human being than I am.

McCall Hoyle

#18. Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

Tucker Carlson

#19. Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

Josemaria Escriva