Vilnis Balodis Quotes

#1. Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

#2. How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#3. The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

Georges Rouault

#4. A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?
I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.

Calvin Coolidge

#6. What's the use of having convictions, if you refuse to stand up up for them?

ThePoetDarkling

#7. I never set out to write songs about the world around me ... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Iris Dement

#8. England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Katherine Mansfield

#9. The problem with dictatorships - as I read somewhere recently - and with poisonous ideologies, too, is that they are like sharks. They must keep moving forward or die. What caused their aggression is not what you did. It's who they are.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Claude Monet

#11. It was like hate on a deathbed.

Graham Greene

#12. Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

John Harvey-Jones