#served

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #i do #lose #now #often

The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#photographs #preserved #rest #separated #then

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#having #humor #hurt #just #keep

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#basically #been #career #continues #few

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#family #family life #goes #intimate #justice

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#compliment #deserved #enormous #i #jackie

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#praise #satire #undeserved

I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record. ↗

— Rob Portman

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #deficits #die