#with

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. ↗

— Max Bill

#art #basis #being #borrowing #call

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#discerned #godly #graces #least #may

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#i #make #now #pictures #right

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#adequate #civilization #could #evolved #food supply

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#democracy #freedom #matter #reactionary #using

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. ↗

— Phyllis Bottome

#altered #come #interference #must #neither

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#because #britain #calling #competition #complete

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#away #gave #given #had #i

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#better #children #environment #imagine #our

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#doing #first #good #i #injury