Azalentine Quotes & Sayings

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. — Christopher Alexander

The secret of effectiveness is to know what really counts, then do what really counts, and not worry about all the rest. — Rick Warren

There's not really any kind of love that's 'bad.' All kinds of love teach us about ourselves and about each other. — Leland Dirks

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth. — Thales

Children do not need half a dozen sports, music, art, or theater activities. Kids actually need more free playtime without adult instruction. — Laura Schlessinger

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. — William Osler

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again. — Vidal Sassoon

As part of the logic of human sociality, the internal cohesion of a group is in direct proportion to the degree of threat it perceives from the outside. It follows that anyone who wants to unite a nation, especially one that has been deeply fractured, must demonise an adversary or, if necessary, invent an enemy. For the Turks it was the Armenians. For the Serbs it was the Muslims. For Stalin it was the bourgeoisie or the counter-revolutionaries. For Pol Pot it was the capitalists and intellectuals. For Hitler it was Christian Europe's eternal Other, the Jews. — Jonathan Sacks

I lost boundaries as a child that I didn't even realize it and it wasn't talked about back then. You know, it was something you just buried and dealt with, and moved forward. What could you do about it? — Marie Osmond