Quotes On Problems Of Big Cities

#1. Yup," Heather replied. "Some jackass tries to prick me and I'm gonna prick him right back! Leave the bottle, bucko. Save ya a trip.

Jacob D. Lochner

#2. The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Simone Weil

#3. Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

Jane Jacobs

#4. Potential: the ability to adapt to and grow into increasingly complex roles and environments.

Anonymous

#5. When he visited his and Adam's old bedroom, the thread of disapproval he'd felt during his proposal of a memorial became a rope, as he saw the savage absence not only of Adam but of himself. So when he shut the door on his family and stepped out into the rain it was an already belated act.

Toni Morrison

#6. Once taken by her, you glowed
And you drank her poisons, content.
Because all the stars seemed to grow,
And fields had a different scent,
Autumn fields.

Anna Akhmatova

#7. I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

Mos Def

#8. The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

Idries Shah

#9. I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

Pim Fortuyn

#10. Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

Jaime Lerner

#11. I am a very selfish person.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#12. Soft woman and hard metal ... unexpected & sexy as hell. Had she been real?

Mina Khan

#13. Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

Aeschylus

#14. He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.

Heather Anastasiu

#15. I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

Ann Widdecombe

#16. Don't we realise that the student of today is the executive of tomorrow?

Anthony Carmona