#age

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#contain #love #love is #marriage #only

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#continue #goods #prices #remain #rise

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. ↗

— George Pataki

#after #anything #appreciation #ever #freedom

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. ↗

— George Pataki

#awful #before #between #children #civilians

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #culture #different #forms #intellectual

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. ↗

— John Thune

#being #between #constitutional #constitutional amendment #defined

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling