Darchitectes Quotes & Sayings

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever. — Mary Russell Mitford

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing. — Roger McGuinn

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect
they want to go with the winners. — Ralph Nader

Rabbi Marx pointed out to me that there is a verse in Isaiah that says, "You are my witness. I am the Lord, — Thomas L. Friedman

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. — N.K. Jemisin

On religions and viewpoints: He who knows one, knows none. — Friedrich Max Muller

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. — Samuel Johnson

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day. — Imran Khan

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words! — William Congreve

I am not the enter of anything. — David Levithan

Social entrepreneurship represents the opportunity to redefine the role of government. — Robert Hacker

Working homicide for so many years, Bosch could not be surprised anymore by the horrors people inflicted on each other. But the horrors people saved for themselves were a different story. — Michael Connelly

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. — Christa McAuliffe

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basic trouble with the modern world ... is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic problems crushing the world today, we must clarify our mental confusion. We must acquire a philosophical perspective. In essence, freedom and compulsion are one. Let me give you a simple illustration. Traffic lights restrain your freedom to cross a street whenever you wish. But this restraint gives you the freedom from being run over by a truck. If you were assigned to a job and prohibited from leaving it, it would restrain the freedom of your career. But it would give you freedom from the fear of unemployment. Whenever a new compulsion is forced upon us, we automatically gain a new freedom. The two are inseparable. Only by accepting total compulsion can we achieve total freedom. — Ayn Rand