Gastinger Architects Quotes & Sayings

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. — Alfred Russel Wallace

As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, studied and sacrificed plenty to get where she was today, no easy feat for someone who had just celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday. According to her friends, Sheba was a beauty, though when she looked in the mirror, she saw inevitable flaws; her cheekbones were too pronounced, her mouth a little too wide, her nose with that perturbing slant to it. Still, she accepted compliments gratefully, especially from her roommate, Janelle. Janelle was the true beauty, Sheba thought, with dark ebony skin so smooth that she could be a walking ad for Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate. — Joanna Hynes

Like I said before, the truest part of a person is always the ugliest. But I'm ugly too, so you're not alone. — E.K. Blair

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed. — James Dobson

The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making. — Peter Jackson

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. — Oscar Wilde

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves. — Kate Fox

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people. — Jacques Villeneuve

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person. — Aoife O'Donovan

Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. — John Donne

What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour. — A.W. Tozer

But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what is stated and what is implied, is a place in which I have always found myself. I'm really not a liar, I just learned very early on that those of us deprived of history sometimes need to turn to mythology to feel complete, to belong.(p10) — Meera Syal

We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You saved me." "You wouldn't have needed saving if it wasn't for me. — Marissa Meyer