Escolas De Obidos Quotes & Sayings

The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement. — Hugo Black

I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor. — Scott McNealy

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought. — Robert Frost

Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to operate on it. Any architectural project takes five years; no single enterprise - ambition, intention, need - remains unchanged in the contemporary maelstrom. Architecture is too slow. Yes, the word "architecture" is still pronounced with certain reverence (outside the profession). It embodies the lingering hope - or the vague memory of a hope - that shape, form, coherence could be imposed on the violent surf of information that washes over us daily. Maybe, architecture doesn't have to be stupid after all. Liberated from the obligation to construct, it can become a way of thinking about anything - a discipline that represents relationships, proportions, connections, effects, the diagram of everything. — Rem Koolhaas

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do. — Jeanne Phillips

By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow. — John Woodward

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

An unexamined life is a life of no account. — Socrates

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. — Jean De La Bruyere

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you. — Ernie J Zelinski

Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited, all atremble, all day. How relieved, how eased, the whole world suddenly became! How the great questions all simplified themselves at the same instant
did you feel it? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge