Moneo Quotes & Sayings

Always be skeptical of what you learn from experience. — Marty Rubin

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo

You know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve. My story tells you something about how our societies find a structural necessity for sub-groups. Moneo — Frank Herbert

The loneliness comes to me in certain hours everyday, like a visitor. Like a friend you never expected, a friend you never really want to be with, but he always visit you and love you somehow, — Xiaolu Guo

For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured.
"For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?"
"You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind. — Frank Herbert

Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment. — William J.H. Boetcker

It's as if the whole world was fire and crystal and aquiver
with some sort of cotton wrappers thrown over it."
"Dust sheets," said Marjorie. "I know. — H.G.Wells

I want to read the entire dictionary, but I am afraid that someone is going to spoil the ending! — Jen Selinsky

The Excellence Manifesto #1

I pledge myself to patience.
I pledge myself to boldness.
I pledge myself to kindness.
I pledge myself to prudence.
I pledge myself to cheerfulness.
I pledge myself to genuineness.
I pledge myself to goodness.

I commit to skilfulness.
I commit to diligence.
I commit to resourcefulness.
I commit to excellence.
I commit to perseverance.
I commit to brilliance.
I commit to transcendence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done. — Mark Twain

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,
Adore to weeping,
Love to laughing,
Desire to praising.
Tickle, giggle, kiss!
Adonai my God,
For one moment in love,
Let alone a thousand,
Let alone my life,
For the honor of raising and loving
Children in love,
Praise of You is ever upon my lips. — Zoe Klein

You know what's your problem? You're too good for your own good. — Shantaye Brown

I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it. — Frank Herbert

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. — Robert Wyatt

He who will not work shall not eat.' Yet, so strong is the propensity to be thought 'gentlemen;' so general is this desire amongst the youth of this proud money making nation, that thousands upon thousands of them are, at this moment, in a state which may end in starvation; not so much because they are too lazy to earn their bread, as because they are too proud! — William A. Alcott

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind. — Salvador Dali

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time. — Rafael Moneo

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most. — Frank Herbert

If you have a tough question that you can't answer, first tackle a simpler question that you can't answer. — Anonymous

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing? — Frank Herbert

The smoke! The golden smoke!
His robe whipped upward, turning him until his face was directed downward into the abyss. With his gaze on the depths, he recognized a maelstrom of boiling rapids there, the mirror of his life-precipitous currents and plunges, all movement gathering up all substance. Leto's words wound through his mind on a path of golden smoke: "Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve." Moneo fell freely then in the ecstasy of awareness. The universe opened for him like clear glass, everything flowing in a no Time. — Frank Herbert

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. — Warren Farrell

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. — William Shakespeare

Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual. Moneo — Frank Herbert

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial. — Rafael Moneo

Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present. — Frank Herbert

Buildings are always better than drawings and models. — Rafael Moneo

Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity. — Frank Herbert