Troubetzkoy Paintings Quotes

#1. Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!

C. JoyBell C.

#2. Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Shantideva

#3. He couldn't grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.

Kelly Moran

#4. Name a country, and I have probably been there.

Peter Uihlein

#5. I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Don DeLillo

#6. The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Gunter Grass

#7. In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place ... not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. On his [Marco Rubio] Gang of Eight bill, he would have liberalized immigration, but he did not - and he steadfastly opposed any new border security requirements for refugees or students.

Ted Cruz

#10. He's my never - the person who I should have ended up with, the one who shakes your soul, but timing was never right.

Renee Swann

#11. Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Robert Browning

#12. Mont Blanc confronted us, dazzling, immense, cut sharp out of the bue sky; more prosterous than the most baroque wedding cake, more convincing than the best photograph. It fairly took my breath away. It made me want to laugh.

Christopher Isherwood

#13. If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

Isaiah Mustafa