The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He didn't know if he had the right or not. Didn't know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.

Orson Scott Card

These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

Leo Tolstoy

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

William Hazlitt

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Virgil, Eclogues, Book IX, Line

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Doisneau

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Sonny Perdue

He teaches me to be good that does me good.

Thomas Fuller

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow

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