A Quote by Breyten Breytenbach

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

Breyten Breytenbach

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Art Art Of Living Living Mastered Unacceptable

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Breyten Breytenbach
South African - Writer
Born: September 16, 1939

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

Jon Mead

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

Mary Antin

Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

Dan Millman

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

Frederick Lenz

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

William Morris

No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.

Flora Thompson

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

Ashley Wagner

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

Ashley Wagner

I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.

Hillary Clinton

Unfortunately, the experience on HealthCare.gov has been highly frustrating for many Americans. These problems are unacceptable.

Todd Park

There are plenty of ways we can work together to improve the ACA, but destroying the law and leaving Americans at risk is unacceptable.

Jacky Rosen

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Stephen Curry

I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what gets into stores or not. It was quite simple for me: they act like judge and jury of my art, and that is unacceptable. I wanted to give it right to the public.