Krisel Construction Quotes & Sayings

Poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development. — Jane Jacobs

He who fears being watched from the abyss
will be unable to look into it himself.
The truth can only be obtained by pressing forward. — Sadamu Yamashita

Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed that the majority of the Massachusetts volunteers appeared to be thrill-seeking teenagers, British Army deserters and otherwise unemployed African Americans. Washington doubted that these volunteers would ever be able to stand up to the British. Much to Washington's surprise, the free black men soon proved to be exemplary soldiers. — C.L. Gammon

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together. — Dorothy Richardson

That, Eddie thought, was an exceedingly clever reply. Roland had said I can't answer ... but that wasn't the same thing as I don't know. Far from it. — Stephen King

They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread. — Alice Sebold

You don't have to be there to be there. — Janet Evanovich