"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being."

-- David Rockefeller

#New York Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Cities Quotes

“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”
“I think the best and perhaps only sensible policy for the future is to prepare society for change and be prepared to adjust. In 25 years, we'll have a world with some 9 to 10 billion people that will require twice as much primary energy as today. We must embrace new science and technology in a more positive way than we presently do in Europe. This includes, for example, nuclear energy and genetic food production to provide the world what it urgently needs.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.”
“Sheâ€™s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”
“I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.”
“All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.”
“The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable”
“Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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