"Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society."

-- Zaha Hadid

#Block Quotes #Believe Quotes #Museums Quotes

“Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.”
“In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.”

Source : Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.43, Penguin UK
“Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that personâ€™s eyes or to experience that personâ€™s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.”

Source : Martha C. Nussbaum (2010). “From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law”, p.16, Oxford University Press
“A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.”
“Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.”
“The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “A Girl Named Disaster”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.
“It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.”

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