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Diego Rivera Quotes

Let’s celebrate together Diego Riviera’s birthday, trying to share best Diego Riviera Quotes.

“If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.”

“Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman’s body and of female sexuality.” (talking of his wife Frida Kahlo)

Diego Rivera Quotes“Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.”

“Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did.”

“I’ve never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.”

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

leo tolstoy quotesFaith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Quotes of the Day

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. – Unknown

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Benjamin Disraeli

People are very open-minded about new things — as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. – Charles Kettering

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. – Unknown

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. – Confucius

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. – Linus Torvalds

Napoleon Hill Quotes

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Napoleon Hill QuotesEvery adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. –Napoleon Hill Quotes

Gregor Mendel Quotes

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. – Gregor Mendel Quotes

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. – Gregor Mendel Quotes

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20 Homer Simpson Quotes on Parenting

Homer Simpson Quotes1.) “Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.”

2.) “OK, son. Just remember to have fun out there today, and if you lose, I’LL KILL YOU!”

3.) “No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don’t like their jobs, they don’t go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American Way.”

4.) “I don’t apologize. I am sorry Lisa, that’s the way I am.”

5.) “You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.”

6.) “The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let’s see. Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else…”

7.) “I have to work overtime at work instead of spending time with my wife and kids, which is what I want.”

8.) “When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces, I just know they’re about to jab me with something.”

9.) “Marge, there’s an empty spot I’ve always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer.”

10.) “I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.”

11.) “Kids are great, Apu. You can teach them to hate the things you hate and they practically raise themselves now-a-days, you know, with the internet and all.”

12.) “Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”

13.) “Don’t eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.”

14.) “What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts. ”

15.) “Movies are the only escape from the drudgery of work and family … No offense.”

16.) “Remember as far as anyone knows, we’re a nice normal family.”

17.) “It’s not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 hours of TV a day.”

18.) “Kids, kids. As far as Daddy’s concerned, you’re both potential murderers.”

19.) “Well, it’s 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids. ”

20.) “Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn’t get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn’t get to go to college.”