Mandela Perspective

Fate is character. - William Winter

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Character is what you think in the dark. - Dwight L. Moody

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. - Londo Molari

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Habits form character, and character forms destiny. - James Allen

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed. - William Winter

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. - Zig Ziglar

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. - Faith Baldwin

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

As a man in a relationship, you have a simple choice: You can be right or you can be happy. - Ralphie May

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

Your reputation is what you’re perceived to be, Your character is what you really are. - John Wooden

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer