"There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others."

-- John Ruskin

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Men Quotes

“My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.”

Source : Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”

Source : What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12
“Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.”
“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”

Source : "'Infanterie Greift An' ('Infantry Attacks')". Book by Erwin Rommel, p. 62, 1937.
“Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.”
“No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.”
“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
“I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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