Chouinard Construction Quotes & Sayings

We in the West have been at the mercy of those who where supposed to translate and explain an entire ideology but instead sanitized it and camouflaged it. The same applies on the other side. In western culture, democracy is being taught in the classroom, but it is a historically understood concept. The intellectual translation into Arab Muslim culture depends on the "translating party." In those cultures, its real meaning has been complicated and altered in the madrassas (Islamic religious schools) or when taught by antidemocracy teachers. — Walid Phares

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs. — Kabir

(A few years ago in Fushun, China, two dolphins ate strips of their tank's vinyl lining and were saved by Bao Xishun, a 7'9" Mongolian herdsman who appears in the Guinness Book of World Records as "The World's Tallest Man." When surgical tools failed, Xishun reached down the dolphins' throats with his forty-two-inch arms and extracted the plastic.) — Susan Casey

God's given me a fierce passion for teaching girl's my age and younger, maybe even older, about purity, and the fact that it is not a physical thing but in fact that of the heart. — Abigail Ford

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years. — Leonard Cohen

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck. — Megan Jendrick

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. — Malcolm Gladwell

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another. — Aeschylus

It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations repeat themselves with infinite variations, turned upside down and inside out by fruitless dialectic of wallpapers and hangings. — Bruno Schulz