Dieste Quotes & Sayings

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories. — Barack Obama

On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry. — Roberto Bolano

I would have praised you more if you had praised me less. — Louis XVI Of France

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist. — Dan Simmons

My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers. — Enrico Letta

Of course I can accept you for who you are. You are someone I need to change. — Randy Glasbergen

There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream ... — Daphne Du Maurier

Hands down, this is the best day of my life," Olaf says as he begins to drip into a puddle, "and quite possibly the last. — Elise Allen

Learn to pay attention to your body with the relaxed attitude of gratitude, trust, curiosity and unconditional love rather than being pushed around by habit, fear, anxiety, social customs, other people's schedules and other people's ideas about what is good for you. — Wallace D. Wattles

Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology? — Jeff Rasley

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern. — Marcel Proust