Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Richard Meier

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Robert Leighton

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Jane Austen

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia

To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, all the Papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for, can be relative to any purpose under the cognizance of the House of Representatives, except that of an impeachment, which the resolution has not expressed. I repeat, that I have no disposition to withhold any information which the duty of my station will permit, or the public good shall require to be disclosed: and in fact, all the Papers affecting the negotiation with Great Britain were laid before the Senate, when the Treaty itself was communicated for their consideration and advice. The course which the debate has taken, on the resolution of the House, leads to some observations on the mode of making treaties under the Constitution of the United States.

George Washington

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Victor Hugo

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Nick Clegg

There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.

Elisabeth Kubler Ros

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Luc De Clapiers