Biesecker Dutkanych Quotes & Sayings

I am an architect, first. — Hugh Hardy

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers. — Christopher Hitchens

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn! — Logan Pearsall Smith

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned. — John Swartzwelder

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence? Or does it need a creator, and, if so, does he have any other effect on the universe? And who created him? — Stephen Hawking

Comics who grew up surviving their childhood by being able to be the first one to make the joke about their weight or their hairy arms - like me - whatever they're insecure about, whatever they're apologizing for, that becomes their strength. — Sarah Silverman

The exact orbit of Earth is controlled by the Sun's mass and the mass of all remaining planets. An object's mass and its distance is all we need to know to completely determine the effects of its gravity on Earth. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town. — Jim Butcher

Music is still the antidote for the nameless ... Music is planetary fire, an irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods ... — Henry Miller

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet. — Mary Pope Osborne

Going away is not always so simple - when one takes oneself along. — Erich Maria Remarque

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude. — Bryant McGill

We sometimes just have to let things be.

There are times in life that things happen, and we just cannot control them. There are times when we don't want things to happen, but they do. Things that we don't want to know, we learn. Times in which people we can't live without, we have to let go.

The greatest learning is accepting what has, what is, and what will be. Remaining focussed on where we want to go, and how we want to get there. It might not go the way we planned, or the way we hoped it would be. No one said life would be easy, but at least we keep trying, and working hard at making it the best life it can be. — Aisha Mirza

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. — Linda M. Godwin

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry — Merle Shain