Reliefs Quotes

#1. One Pain, Hundred Reliefs!

Hemdiva Dev

#2. But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Francisco Goya

#3. In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.

Ellsworth Kelly

#4. Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Plato

#5. New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.

Michel De Certeau

#6. I was
holding her
and she was
holding me.
Couldn't see
we both were
going down.
When holding on
is the only thing
you've got,
how can you know
this is how lovers drown?

Carolee Dean

#7. Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

#8. In deploring spin while also desiring it, Barack Obama is like the rest of us. We denounce spin when we see it as misleading. But we embrace spin when we see it as leading.

David Greenberg

#9. As the science of economics ... exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig Von Mises

#10. There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.

Anna Quindlen

#11. No, we are never alone. But one has to live apart to know it for the truth.

Henry Miller

#12. If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

Charles Wheelan

#13. An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Ed Parker

#14. I can always recognize the fellow wounded.

Suzette Mayr

#15. When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

Don Rickles

#17. Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

C.S. Lewis

#18. You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

George Steinbrenner

#19. Darren stayed way past visiting hours and Healer Prentiss, not swayed by Darren's good looks, kicked them both out.

Chanda Hahn