Renaissance Quotes - Page 2

I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this meeting is at the beginning of a renaissance of trust.

It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance.

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.