Quotesdtb.com
Home
Authors
Quotes of the day
Top quotes
Topics
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
Julio Iglesias
Related topics
generation
hanging
next
notice
painting
sell
sold
time
wall
picasso
Related quotes
When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo, ... The same kilo, when it is processed and sold in Britain, goes for 10, 11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation price disparity that goes for all raw materials.
Yoweri Museveni
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?
Germaine Greer
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
William James