To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
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Howard Hodgkin
The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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Jack Hanna
Endangered species are our friends.
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Yao Ming
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.
They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
If you don't believe you don't belong
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
He’d wanted all of me and that’s what I’d given him. Did it mean I had nothing left? “No,†he muttered, voice thick with passion. “You have me, and I love you.
my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
