Richette Bell Quotes

#1. no stone. Except for the huge reeds in the marshes, it had no trees for timber. Here, then, was a region with

Samuel Noah Kramer

#2. I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Martin Parr

#3. When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.

Lewis Mumford

#4. The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

Jimenez Lai

#6. Knowledge is that weapon which protects us from destruction. It is

Mahesh Sharma

#7. Ideas ... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.
(Attributed to Mike Jones)

Steven Levy

#8. The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

David Cameron

#9. The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#10. After all, you can't hang out at the park with your kid and shop for coordinating head scarves and flip-flops (or whatever else Bethany does to fill the endless expanse of nonworking days) without a college education.
Oh, that's right. You totally can.

Megan McCafferty

#11. There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.

Norman Finkelstein