Corbusier Villa Quotes & Sayings

Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is ... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year. — Sheryl WuDunn

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. — Diodorus Siculus

Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises. — Sri Chinmoy

Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need. — Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not to our own good feelings and rewards. He wants us to cleave to him, as Job did, even when we have every reason to deny him hotly. That, I believe, is the central message of Job. Satan had taunted God with the accusation that humans are not truly free. Was Job being faithful simply because God had allowed him a prosperous life? Job's fiery trials proved the answer beyond doubt. Job clung to God's justice when he was the best example in history of God's apparent injustice. He did not seek the Giver because of his gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver. — Philip Yancey

It is far easier to take a blow to the cheek than a blow to one's pride. Broken bones can heal, but a broken mirror must be replaced. — Luke Taylor

The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government. — Avro Manhattan

Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a foreign example, and worse, no matter what you say, despite the context, it will be considered a postmodern device. That's the danger of postmodernism: it poses itself as something that can't be trumped, something you can't escape. It continually mocks your efforts for the sake of its name. I know even this will be seen as another postmodern bullet, and no matter what I say, critics and readers will be locked into how to lock me in. — Brian Celio

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without. — Elbert Hubbard

Satisfaction is the inner state of a man; it cannot be achieved externally. — Sunday Adelaja

You could've married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but noooo. You had to eat the pomegranate. — Rick Riordan

They no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so. — Victor Hugo

My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key. — Arcade Fire