The Refuge At Austin Quotes

#1. A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.

Walter J. Phillips

#2. Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.

Kate Winslet

#3. Discussions do not lead to definite conclusions. The Srutis are divided in opinion. And there is not a single Rishi whose opinions can be accepted as conclusive. Truth about religious matters is hidden in caves. Therefore that is the proper path which has been followed by great men.

Mahabharata

#4. Surviving isn't around us, but in us.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

Martin Luther

#6. One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish

John Paul Warren

#7. I am not distracted by wrong because I am attracted to right.

John Paul Warren

#8. After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

J.L. Austin

#9. One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Eric Butterworth

#10. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.

John Paul Warren

#11. It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

Joseph Addison

#12. Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.

Dick Thornburgh

#13. There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.

John Paul Warren

#14. I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Bokeem Woodbine

#15. I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Steve Israel

#16. Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

Robert Breault

#17. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

William Hazlitt

#19. Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron

John Paul Warren

#20. I refuse to live life with unsettled differences.

John Paul Warren

#21. The cats were relaxing in a patch of sunlight on the rug without a thought in their sleek brown heads. What matter to them that it was Sunday-or even Thursday? Every day was Today in their scheme of things, and there was no such thing as Yesterday or Tomorrow.

Lilian Jackson Braun