"Never being, but always at the edge of Being."

-- Stephen Spender

“Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.”
“Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.”
“In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth.”
“The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.”
“Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.”
“I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.”
“I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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