Frei Quotes

#1. Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Karen Blixen

#2. Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair "Vive la Liberte" a song says, "Work is freedom." In 1940 the sign on the gates to Auschwitz said: "Arbeit macht frei.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#3. I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

Frei Otto

#4. What's hard is designing a service model that allows average employees - not just the exceptional ones - to produce service excellence as an everyday routine.

Frances Frei

#5. If orthodoxy is impure water, he tells us, neology is liquid manure.

Hans W Frei

#6. We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Buzzie Bavasi

#7. Please, don't spare my self-confidence, sir. I never take it with me when I leave home.

Max Frei

#8. To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

Frei Otto

#9. We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

Frei Otto

#10. I fumbled around in the basement of my soul in search of the small, sensible fellow who often comes to the rescue during emergencies. It looked like he wasn't home.

Max Frei

#11. For someone who was educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, Mrs Obama can also plant garden bulbs without looking as if she is handling nuclear waste.

Matt Frei

#12. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

Oswald Chambers

#13. There is nothing simpler than carrying out the impossible. You just have to imagine what you must do, and turn your mind off completely, When you come to your senses, everything is already behind you.

Max Frei

#14. Strong men serving together thrive in the strength their friendship provides.

James MacDonald

#15. It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

Frei Betto

#16. I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

Frei Otto

#17. Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

Frei Otto

#18. I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket.

Mitch Hedberg

#19. Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

Frei Otto

#20. Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it.

Kim Harrison

#21. There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.

Irene Gonzalez Frei

#22. For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

Frei Betto

#23. I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.

Robert Powell

#24. Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

Frei Otto

#25. A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes ... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.

Frei Otto

#27. In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.

H.G.Wells

#28. My architecture is the architecture of survival.

Frei Otto

#29. That's how every good story must end. When a person stops understanding something, he's on the right track.

Max Frei

#30. Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

John Cleveland

#31. God works within a broken system to gradually improve it until it's eventually done away with.

Preston Sprinkle

#32. My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

Frei Otto

#33. ...prayer makes us more sensitive to the manifestations of institutionalized lies.

Frei Betto

#34. I am running a bit late. But all right, if I'm going to be late, I should be at least thirty minutes late. There's something small-minded about running just five minutes late, don't you think?

Max Frei

#35. Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

Tyne Daly

#36. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#37. It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Francis Bacon

#38. I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

Frei Otto

#39. People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.

Max Frei

#40. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Siegfried Sassoon