Pax Indica Quotes & Sayings

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. — Rem Koolhaas

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. — Christopher G. Moore

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. — Tom Udall

Anytime you do something Latino, yeah, I love the color, the spice. — Esai Morales

Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few. — Horace Walpole

To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself. — Marie Forleo

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his student), and it surely distorts the character Mann created. Yet, we know that Mann's novella was based on a holiday in Venice he took with his wife and brother, and that while he was there he followed the reports in the German newspapers, describing the dying Mahler's progress as he returned from New York to Vienna. — Philip Kitcher

burning with curiosity — Lewis Carroll

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. — Henri Frederic Amiel