Andreas Quotes

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly.

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

A word is worth a thousand images.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

The condition of the body limits, largely, the expression of the spirit.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.