#beats

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#chimerical #country #faces #father #feeling

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ↗

— Will Carleton

#beetle #drought #each #fall #farmer

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#beats #body #brain #cooperating #different

Biology always beats will power. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#beats #biology #power #will

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. ↗

— Nate Silver

#gallup #google #living #where #world

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#howl #the-beats #writing #intelligence

The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart. ↗

— Toba Beta

#body #dance #harmony #heart #movement

Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

#heartbeats #pole-dancing-to-gospel-hymnes #music

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ↗

— Stella Adler

#beats #crushes #down #life #reminds

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military