Chinar Leaf Quotes & Sayings

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities
and perhaps even for one who is not
The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading. — Nathan Glazer

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make. — Wilfred Trotter

The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving ... Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, they saw that even the crooked girl believed her own life was precious. — Barbara Kingsolver

You are sunlight falling through trees. You are laughter that breaks through the sadness. You are the breeze on a too-warm day. You are clarity in the midst of confusion. You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do. — Kiera Cass

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man. — Otto Von Bismarck

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think. — Lalla Ward

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. — James Baldwin

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone. — Charles Simic

When you fill a void, isn't the void still there? — Marty Rubin