Giorgetti Furniture Quotes & Sayings

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. — Le Corbusier

I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals. — Anne Ellis

If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life
production, politics, and education
rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden. — Emma Goldman

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death. — Paul Ricoeur

I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called. — Robin Caldwell

Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. Let us now start fresh without remembrance, rather than live forward and backward at the same time. We cannot build the future by avenging the past. Let us sit down as brothers, and accept the Peace of God. — T.H. White

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte

With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have. — John Rzeznik

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain. — Robert Frost

In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else. — Joyce Carol Oates

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been. — Rudy Giuliani

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. — William Shakespeare