#renaissance

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#backward #forward #go #going #need

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. ↗

— Steven Wright

#breakfast #during #french #i #ordered

Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland. ↗

— King Hussein I

#auspices #built #comprehensive #emulate #greater

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#been #i #kind #long #long process

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. ↗

— George Santayana

#like #mind #pilgrim #renaissance #sedentary

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

the choices we make dictate the life we lead ↗

— Danny De Vito

#life

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep. ↗

— Thomas More

#fashion #humorous #renaissance #humor

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#motivational #renaissance #inspirational