Edifice Complex Quotes

#1. It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

Claudia Roth Pierpont

#2. When we're young, it sometimes seems as if our world doesn't exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available.

Wes Moore

#3. If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Robert Jordan

#4. It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

James Henry Breasted

#5. The reeds give
way to the
wind and give
the wind away

A.R. Ammons

#6. Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

Libba Bray

#7. Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Ted Lange

#8. There is no refreshment more gratifying to the soul than the sight of Nature in her summer finery, before the heat is at its most intense. She is soothing, but not soporific; intoxicating without inebriation.

M T Anderson

#9. The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

George Herbert

#10. Good listening places us on an edifice of learning complex human behavior.

Balroop Singh

#11. I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.

Jacqueline Nguyen

#12. We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet.

Dalai Lama