Quotes About Livability

#1. The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in livability polls, as if we did a lot to deserve it.

Robin Cody

#2. In some ways we indisputably are, but a major new ranking of livability in 132 countries puts the United States in a sobering 16th place. We underperform because our economic and military strengths don't translate into well-being for the average citizen.

Anonymous

#3. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#4. Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

Earl Blumenauer

#5. Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Jonathan Raymond

#6. I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

#7. Remorse is the poison of life.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. The dark forest looked on fire. The trees were lit up like funeral pyres. She thought she saw bodies strapped to the trees, burning, burning, burning.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Charles Wesley

#10. If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.

Paul Zindel

#11. It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.

John Calvin

#13. My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

Amity Gaige

#15. Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

Ogden Nash