Cattleyas Quotes

#1. The cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least like other flowers, but of being made, apparently, out of scraps of silk or satin.

Marcel Proust

#2. Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Isaac

#3. If you don't like Scottish weather, wait 30 minutes, and it is likely to change.

Raymond Bonner

#4. Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Criss Jami

#5. Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.

Dalai Lama

#6. Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates ...

Robert Higgs

#7. The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward M. Kennedy

#8. The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

#9. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Samuel Johnson

#10. NO! The half-shrieked

Stephenie Meyer

#11. Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end ... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

Victor Papanek