Begets Diamonds Quotes

#1. For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

I.M. Pei

#2. The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Barack Obama

#3. She'd shown her that living a life of silence and regret wasn't really living at all,

Lana Hart

#4. Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

Erik Erikson

#5. You remember all those phrases about how 'these people' - Asians - don't value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.

Neil Sheehan

#6. Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

Thorstein Veblen

#7. It was fun to burn.

Rick Riordan

#8. Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better.

Drake

#9. Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.

Charles E. Jefferson

#10. I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be, that's just me.

Eminem

#11. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Lord Byron

#12. You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying is true.

Jean-Christophe Maillot