Hugh Ferriss Quotes

#1. But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone,

Jean M. Auel

#2. How, I wondered, was one meant to live without killing, when killing sought one out at every turn? The world made its monsters indeed.

Charlotte McConaghy

#3. I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

Kenny Chesney

#4. I will die, later or sooner, and what I understand will be lost, for when men and women seek truth, what they find is as deceptive as lies, and neither truth nor lies exist outside of a deceptive soul.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#5. A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

Hugh Ferriss

#6. As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it's even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others.

Marcus Buckingham

#7. Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

Paulo Coelho

#8. The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

Hugh Ferriss

#9. The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.

Alfred Tarski

#10. As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

Hugh Ferriss

#11. Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

E.M. Delafield

#12. The ideal is the enemy of the real.

Susan Block

#13. When in the world did anyone die from a dream?

Lisa See