Quotes & Sayings About Tripoli Lebanon

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule ... [Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell. — Jane Jacobs

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd. — Barbara Kingsolver

Could we live it over again, Were it worth the pain, Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead! — Oscar Wilde

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been. — Robert E. Howard

Life is best when you are in love. — Michael Moriarty

I get back in the Continental and continue down the road to the cafe. Then I pull in and there's Larry Johnson's '57 Ford pickup in the parking lot. As I enter the little cafe, I see Larry and Briggs in the corner, drinking some coffee and having a late breakfast. I go right over and sit down with them. We don't say much. David says something about Kirby getting a job at one of the studios. Kirby is very good with his hands and can fix anything, plus he has a very friendly personality. We are happy for him. Larry has to make a call and gets up, heading for the pay phone in the corner. He has us get him another coffee when the waitress comes back. Briggs looks at me and asks what I've been doing. — Neil Young

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it ... it's very disturbing. — Ai Weiwei

Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs. — Steven Magee

She smiled. "How ... cute." She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit. — Matthew Skelton

For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how. — William Shakespeare

Compared to other generations, millennials tend to be more collaborative, are accustomed to working in teams & have a passion for pressure. — Joanie Connell

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. — Eric Maisel