#grace

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#coup #final #finish #give #grace

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#brought #grace #illness #me #nearer

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ↗

— William Pitt

#course #damned #disgrace #poverty

I don't think I've aged gracefully. ↗

— Robert Plant

#gracefully #i #think

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#country #culture #english #find #french

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#get #grace #means #place #possible

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured. ↗

— Colin Powell

#millions #people #uninsured #who

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us. ↗