Supreme Quotes - Page 39

• I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Black And White, Light

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• The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Enemy, Jerusalem, Christ

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• The supreme morality of art is to endure.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Morality, Endure

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• In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Sides, Ends

  Wassily Kandinsky (2012). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

  Gary North

  Jesus, People, Training

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• The Formless Supreme Being abides in the Realm of Eternity. Over His creation He casts His glance of grace. In that Realm are contained all the continents and the universes, Exceeding in number all count. Of creation worlds upon worlds abide therein; All obedient to His will; He watches over them in bliss, And has each constantly in mind.

  Guru Nanak

  Numbers, Grace, Mind

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• The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

  Arlen Specter

  Real, Decision, Congress

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• Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

  Rick Santorum

  Years, Two, Pro Life

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• The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

  Harry Reid

  Real, Justice, Perspective

  "Bush Picks Miers for Supreme Court". www.foxnews.com. October 04, 2005.

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• Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Blessed, Names, Lord

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• It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.

  James Gordon Lindsay

  Prayer, Delight, Presence Of God

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• It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

  Art Rust, Jr.

  Depression, Baseball, War

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• Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.

  Rachel Carson

  Wings, Bird, Decision

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Sovereign, Suffrage

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• I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man.

  John Hancock

  Country, Men, People

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• Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.

  Saint Basil

  Healing, Loss, True Life

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• I am constrained to express my adoration of the Supreme Being, the Author of my existence, in full belief of His providential goodness and His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through Whom I hope for never-ending happiness in a future state.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Jesus, Forgiving, World

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• The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mother, Successful, Artist

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• I regard the Masonic institution as one of the means ordained by the Supreme Architect to enable mankind to work out the problem of destiny; to fight against, and overcome, the weaknesses and imperfections of his nature, and at last to attain to that true life of which death is the herald and the grave the portal.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Fighting, Destiny

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• France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, France, Great Art

  'To a Republican Friend, 1848. Continued'

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• It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Real, Heart, Hands

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Justice, Adoption

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• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Law, Justice, Political

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• Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

  John G. Lake

  Jesus, Court, Discipleship

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.107, Whitaker House

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• Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

  Nelly

  Expression, Righteous

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