#works

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#good-works #jesus #philanthropy #life

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#like #marriage #much #old #work

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#business #everybody #lucky #number #people

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#essence #out #peace #society #works

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. ↗

— Charley Lau

#hitting #neither #them #theories #two

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#nature #noble #observes #often #only

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry. ↗

— Will Oldham

#everybody #film #film industry #i #i think

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#anyone #did #hard #i #results