Aristarkh Livanovs Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

You don't study photography, you do it — Elliott Erwitt

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth. — John Cheever

sinister in the air, as if the arrival — Margaret Addison

The kingdom of Aragon possessed an official known as the Justicia, for whom no exact equivalent is to be found in any country of western Europe. An Aragonese noble appointed by the Crown, the Justicia was appointed to see that the laws of the land were not infringed by royal or baronial officials, and that the subject was protected against any exercise of arbitrary power. The office of Justicia by no means worked perfectly, and by the late fifteenth century it was coming to be regarded as virtually hereditary in the family of Lanuza, which had close ties with the Crown; but none the less, the... — J.H. Elliott

So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with X Factor judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce. — Yvette Cooper

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to. — Jack Kornfield

Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality. — William McDonough

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new. — Fred Alan Wolf