No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
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APURVA GAGLANI Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
NICHOLAS ROWE All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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DEYTH BANGER The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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SUSAN COOPER There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
MARTIN SCORSESE No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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PHILIP K. DICK The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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CHARLES H. SPURGEON We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
ANDREW CARNEGIE No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the
semblance of courtesy.
UNKNOWN You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
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ELISE R MAUDE IS Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
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EDWARD SAID There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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SIDDHA NAGARJUNA That's SHIT!
How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fa...
VICTOR HUGO Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
BESS MYERSON Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple trut...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en...
BERTRAND RUSSEL There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of...
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WALTER SMITH I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists i...
GEORGE MACDONALD The word 'open' never appeared. There is no open architecture.
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YOKO ONO No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
LATIN PROVERB No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have
LATIN PROVERB Each of these follows different steps so far as the architecture is concerned and so far as the impl...
DAYA NADAMUNI There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No,...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospec...
EDWARD TELLER John Knox's dying words were, 'Lord, grant true pastors to Thy kirk.' Such was the last prayer of a ...
KEVIN SWANSON Ques eso? Queso?
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VERONICA LAPPAY Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN Life is simple, as simple as Quant.
VIKRMN I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It...
ZAHA HADID It's simple enough that no framework is needed.
DENNIS SOSNOSKI Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definit...
PAUL RAND The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they shoul...
GEORGE CLOONEY Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
JEFFERSON DAVIS Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
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JOHN RUSKIN It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great o...
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ZYGMUNT BAUMAN There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
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CHRIS MARLOW Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjo...
KATHY GOTTBERG Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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Please try to describe the picture as ...
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JOHN RUSKIN A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
JOHN RUSKIN Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
JOHN RUSKIN