"Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel."

-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Vocabulary Quotes #Steel Quotes #Stones Quotes

“The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.”
“Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.”

Source : "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.
“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”

Source : King v. Ginever, 6 T. R. 735, 1796.
“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”
“Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.”
“There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.”

Source : David Gemmell (2009). “Dark Moon”, p.342, Random House
“All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.”
“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

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