Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
Walter Gropius
Related I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying ou... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE A writer should be joyous, an optimist... Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a wri... GEORGE GRIBBIN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. I. M. PEI Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the a... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer. GEORGE GRIBBON The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it ... NURUDEEN USHAWU I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific indi... THOMAS SOWELL The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primar... JOSEPH MCCABE The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primar... JOSEPH MCCABE Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. OSCAR WILDE Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH NOLS also helped because they have such incredibly intimate knowledge about that part of the forest ... PETER AENGST By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'... JONATHAN AMES To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your s... ORHAN PAMUK She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie... PATRICK KAVANAGH Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and techn... YOCHAI BENKLER Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the... WALTER RUDOLF HESS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS Carol's record of leadership and accomplishment speaks for itself. Her intimate knowledge of the JCC... LEE ABRAHAM Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi... JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ... JAMES THURBER A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide... JEFFREY ZELDMAN The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (t... MARCUS J. BORG life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done. JOHN GRISHAM I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi... FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. ANTHONY BURGESS Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con... FRANKLIN GILLETTE Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other,... THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY DOWNLOAD FREE 90541 A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness o... JAMES MADISON When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it... YOCHAI BENKLER Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficien... VIKRANT PARSAI Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is car... OSCAR NIEMEYER A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a ... JOSEPH STORY Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. SPIRO KOSTOF Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architect... CARLOS SLIM I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or eff... MAX WEBER Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they mu... JOHN HORGAN The department's philosophy is that career-technical students should be prepared for both work and c... PAT HUSTON That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or te... JOSE SERRANO If a country successfully translate the principles of truth and honesty into their social life, soci... SUNDAY ADELAJA I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel... FRANCIS BACON If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concept... DENISE RILEY I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can,... JOHN UPDIKE
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