Sothebys Institute Quotes

#1. Sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others
even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit

Darren Shan

#2. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

#3. You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

William Shatner

#4. The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

#6. No they're not, he said. It was the voice of a man stating a simple fact.

Stephen King

#7. The problem with paths is that once you have chosen one, You cannot choose the others. Attributed to Gothos

Ian C. Esslemont

#8. Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Lord Acton

#9. I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

Tommy Lee

#10. Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

Philip Jose Farmer

#11. I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

John Adams

#12. Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.

George Lakoff

#13. Bruce, we've been defined by our pasts. Everyone is, but I just think some souls can take more than others. It's not their fault if they can't.'

I thought of my mother and couldn't have agreed more - and couldn't have loved Jenn more for saying it.

Jake Remington