
Top 17 Schinkel Quotes
#1. Texaco's chairman, the Hitler-admiring Torkild Rieber, was using the company's tankers to smuggle oil to the rebels in defiance of a specific request from President Roosevelt.
Ken Follett
#2. Growing into an environment in which everyone else seems bigger and more powerful, every child seeks to gain what they need by the easiest route.
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#3. I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
Judd Nelson
#4. Come here till I tell you. Where is the sea high and the winds soft and moist and warm, sometimes stained with sun, with peace so wild for wishing where all is told and telling.
J.P. Donleavy
#5. Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
#6. In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.
Rick Scarborough
#8. That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.
Gish Jen
#9. Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair ... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
#10. People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened
Kirsten Beyer
#11. Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
#12. Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.
Jochen Zeitz
#15. Remember that while Christians say "Jesus saves," we Jews say "Moses invests.
Celso Cukierkorn
#16. I wished that I ... had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.
Ingrid Law
#17. I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Mike Tyson
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