Versene 100 Quotes & Sayings

There haven't been civilizations without cities. But what about cities without civilizations? An inhuman thing, if possible, to have so many people together who beget nothing on one another. No, but it is not possible, and the dreary begets its own fire, and so this never happens. — Saul Bellow

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. — Clarice Lispector

So the wolfling is leaving his den to play among the lions, he said in a voice of quiet satisfaction. — George R R Martin

I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple. — Walter Mischel

I recognize no empire of this present age. — Paul Speratus

I really like dark music and darkness in general and cynicism and pessimism and negativity because it allows you to create an even bigger contrast. — Andrew W.K.

If God granted me a wish today, I would ask for a talent to read, write and speak all languages of the world! — Shikha Kaul

If life is my way and nirvana is my destination, then which path should I take, religious or spiritual? — Debasish Mridha

One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church zoned for three units and carefully arrays on it twelve affordable housing units, a community center (the converted church), offices for Casa in the church's attic, and a garden that can accommodate street markets and kiosks. 'In a place where current regulation allows only one use,' [Cruz} crows, ' we propose five different uses that support each other. This suggests a model of social sustainability for San Diego, one that conveys density not as bulk but as social choreography.' For both architect and patron, it's an exciting opportunity to prove that breaking the zoning codes can be for the best. Another one of Cruz's core beliefs is that if architects are going to achieve anything of social distinction, they will have to become developers' collaborators or developers themselves, rather than hirelings brought in after a project's parameters are laid out. — Rebecca Solnit

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable. — David Halberstam

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. — Ben Jonson

It's a tradition my great-grandfather started almost a hundred years ago, after my father was born. He gave my father fifty newly minted silver dollars and explained that each time something really amazing happened to him, he had to return one of the dollars to the universe so that someone else could wish on it.
I smile, recalling how Patrick had once told me a story of his grandfather standing on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1936 and throwing a silver dollar into the water after his beloved Yankees won the World Series. They won it for the next three years too, and his grandfather always believed that it was his coins - good luck returned to the universe - that kept their streak alive ...
... My father always used to tell me that if you keep the coins, you throw things out of balance ... It's all about passing the luck on and thanking the world for whatever good things have happened to you. — Kristin Harmel

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana