Will Cotton Quotes

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.

A lot of my opposition to President Obama's policies had behind them 5, 6, 7 years of bad policies that made America less safe in my regard.

We'll go through the legislative process and I'm make it clear what I support, don't support and what I think is good for Arkansas.

As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

Presenting Saturday mornings has been a dream for a long time. And one day in September I am going to wake up very early and it will be a reality. I can't wait.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.

We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.

Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.

If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.

On God for all events depend You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best Leave to your Maker all the rest.

When you fall in love with someone you treasure their quirks as much as anything else. Flaws become unique marks of character, things you'd miss if they weren't there.

Someone's opinion can be right on target, or it also could be cluttered with their doubts. Therefore, be careful, do not make someone else's opinion your law.

Affirmation: My Father/Mother God is embracing me and holding me so tightly that nothing can stop nor touch me.

Remove the fear and recover your finite self.

Knowingness: I am like a newborn baby every day I wake up with a new slate to create.

Affirmation 4 us: I appreciate myself, and I am honored to be me because I am a perfect extension of God.

Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.

Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.

The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall.

One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken

Guilt is the toothache of the soul.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

I can assure you that I'm not very close to Hillary Clinton. I think she's disqualified herself from Commander-in-Chief by her cavalier attitude towards our nation's secrecy laws.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.'

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

I run a lot every morning.

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals travel to terrorist training camps overseas and then are deployed to the West to inflict atrocities.

Early on, when my wife and I were dating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buy birthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: 'Really? I do, too.'

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.