Zumthor Serpentine Quotes & Sayings

The state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state (status naturalis); the natural state is one of war. This does not always mean open hostilities, but at least an unceasing threat of war. A state of peace, therefore, must be established, for in order to be secured against hostility it is not sufficient that hostilities simply be not committed; and, unless this security is pledged to each by his neighbor (a thing that can occur only in a civil state), each may treat his neighbor, from whom he demands this security, as an enemy.3 — Immanuel Kant

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music. — B.B. King

So are you doing anything for your anniversary? I mean other than sitting around your backyard with a bottle of wine moping over lost love."

Since those were pretty much my plans, I said,"No. I'm going to hire a masseur, like you suggested."
After that, there was no turning back. — Marshall Thornton

We must satisfy our customers. — W. Edwards Deming

Not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder. — Lao-Tzu

Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese. — Teju Cole

Juliette had somehow crossed an uninhabitable void, had gone from one universe to another, was possibly the first ever to have done so, and here was a graveyard of foreign souls, of people just like her having lived and died in a world so similar and so near to her own. — Hugh Howey

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you! — Frank Herbert

No matter the challenges we face in life, there is always a guardian angel watching over us and will make things right at the appointed time. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? — Norman Douglas

Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here — Crispin Tickell