A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Douglas Wilson

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

Sally Kirkland

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Barbara Jordan

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Henry Miller

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

George Orwell

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Adlai Stevenson

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Lord Chesterfield

Life is a school of probability

Walter Bagehot

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

J. G. Ballard