"An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist."

-- Cameron Sinclair

#Optimistic Quotes #Artist Quotes #Realist Quotes

“Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.”

Source : "Defying climate deal like appeasing Hitler-UK minister" by Peter Griffiths, af.reuters.com. July 21, 2011.
“Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you”
“Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.”
“Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.”
“Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.”

Source : Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine
“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”
“By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.”
“I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."”

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