Top 35 Edifices Quotes
#1. In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.
Jonathan Swift
#2. Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
James Fenimore Cooper
#3. In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos - there's a pillow!
Emil Cioran
#4. Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
John Ruskin
#5. Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900.
David Roberts
#6. What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.
Frederick Lenz
#8. His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
Margaret Atwood
#9. If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,
others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10. Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
Victor Hugo
#11. Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney
and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill.
Jane Austen
#12. Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
Martin Filler
#13. The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.
Vitruvius
#14. As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
Lucan
#15. From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#16. He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.
Robert Walser
#17. She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.
Clive Barker
#18. The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn't build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.
Ben Witherington III
#19. We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could ever be like that; and if that's how they feel - that's how it will be.
Frederick Lenz
#20. In the uproar, the confusion
of accents and inflections
how will you hear me when I open my mouth?
Look for me, one of the drab population
under fissured edifices, fractured
artifices. Make my various
names flock overhead,
I will follow you.
Li-Young Lee
#21. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
Ulysses S. Grant
#22. Sir William meditated. "Do you recall the name of the saint who was a regular rip before he got religion?" he asked. "I think that applies to most of them," said Fosdike.
Edward J. O'Brien
#23. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#24. It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over however many tweets, you start to create a character for yourself.
Michael Ian Black
#25. 24 v Before they call I will answer; w while they are yet speaking I will hear.
Anonymous
#26. Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
Dale Carnegie
#27. Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all.
Ellen Hopkins
#28. I wondered if it was actually true or if he was simply obeying my commands to confess, but then I realized that I'm the only one who lies in this relationship.
Mackenzie Snow
#29. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
John Lennon
#30. Love was as flawed and terrible and beautiful as we were.
To be alive meant looking for it in ourselves and in others, an imperfection searching for an impossible perfection.
Because in that journey was where truth resided.
Love wasn't about being held. It was about being freed.
Emma Raveling
#31. Leave me with my life of the imagination. Your petty pestering, your details of real life, which all upset me to some degree, would drag me down from heaven. Each person dies as best he may; my wish is not to think of death except in my own way.
Stendhal
#32. I'm the light to his darkness. There's no escape; he's a part of me.
Amy A. Bartol
#35. To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.
Norman Vincent Peale
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