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“A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.”
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“A people must have dignity and identity.”
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“I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants”
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“When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.”
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“At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that there is no greater citizen than she who sacrifices; and that there is no greater measure of worth than contribution. These are values we can be proud of. After all, there is no moral system or religion on earth where the guiding ethic is grab more for yourself.”
Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.34, Sasquatch Books
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“Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.”
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“It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story or a justification to tell you, which I never considered valid because there is not an excuse for violence.”
Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
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“I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.”