#end

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. ↗

— Claude Monet

#discuss #love #necessary #people #pretend

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#beauty #friendship #god #love #art

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#children #love #popular #professionals #public

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#defeat #direct #direct experience #draft #end

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#adopted #ambitious #back #boost #cars

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#compelling #focus #humans #interest #intriguing

Like most things that happen with Sabbath, it happened all of a sudden. I was intending on doing some recording, but out of the blue, Sharon called up and said she wanted us to do these gigs with Ozzy. I said that if everybody else was up to it then I would love to do it. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#called #doing #else #everybody #everybody else

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#around #aspirations #deeper #destiny #ends

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#empowerment #ending #get #i #involved

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time. ↗

— Jack Irons

#bands #became #building #club #diego