"The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself."

-- Stephen Metcalf

#Design Quotes #Enterprise Quotes

“I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.”
“In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.”

Source : "China's Unpeaceful Rise". Current History, Volume 105, 2006.
“Don't kill yourself, kill the part of you that you don't like.”
“I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a brutal and unholy war on a people who have done them no wrong, in violation of the Constitution and the fundamental principles of government. They no longer acknowledge that all government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. They are about to invade our peaceful homes, destroy our property, and murder our men and dishonor our women. We propose no invasion of the North, no attack on them, and only ask to be left alone.”
“I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.”
“Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”
“Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.”
“Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.175, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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