"Whoâ€™s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just donâ€™t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale â€” and ultimately it is a gamble â€” demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world."

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

Ada Louise Huxtable

#Tombstone Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.”
“Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.”
“It's hard to hand a script to a director, there's no question about it. You've lived with these characters, you've started with a blank page, especially when it's an original work and something not based on a preexisting piece of material. But if you don't like it, write a novel.”
“The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.”

Source : "Passing Comment". The Times, January 31, 1998.
“The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer.”
“One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that youâ€™re on the wrong wall.”
“What about you? You didn't even think twice about following those two. They say, 'Let's go onto the ice' and right away you say, 'Where do I put my paws?' If you ask me, you're the brave one.”

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