Incandescente Larousse Quotes & Sayings

If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK. — Jonathan Gottschall

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open. — Walter Gropius

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet. — Martha Plimpton

The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature. — Neal Stephenson

Saying sorry does not make you look small - it makes you look big. — Alexander McCall Smith

No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT — David McCullough

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan — Margaret Thatcher

And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven. Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin. — Ron Chernow

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it. — David Chipperfield