Rambos Outdoors Quotes & Sayings

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know
without ever having constructed one ourselves
that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209) — Alain De Botton

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it. — Niki De Saint Phalle

If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions. — M. Scott Peck

When the inner garden is under cultivation and God's Spirit is present, harvests are regular events. The fruits? Things like courage, hope, love, endurance, joy, and lots of peace. — Gordon MacDonald

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist! — Douglas Adams

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek. — Heinrich Schliemann

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. — Eric Schmidt

I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there! — Barkhad Abdi