"Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness."

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Source : Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com

Marie-Luise Gothein

#Beauty Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.”
“You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.”
“She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.”
“Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.”

Source : Lincoln Ellsworth (1938). “Beyond Horizons”, New York, Book League of America
“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.”
“Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible.”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1856). “Poetical works”, p.221
“You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.”
“The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.”

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