William Hastie Quotes

#1. Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted. - Author: William H. Hastie

#2. You are the imagination of yourself. - Author: Bill Hicks

#3. Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence. - Author: William H. Hastie

#4. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. - Author: Camille Paglia

#5. For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. - Author: Steven Holl

#6. The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence ... - Author: Michael Ignatieff

#7. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won. - Author: William H. Hastie

#8. You have to be there at the right time and you've got to be equipped. - Author: William H. Hastie

#9. The cure to information overload is more information. - Author: David Weinberger

#10. Employment should not be your permanent assignment - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#11. The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism. - Author: Annie Besant

#12. There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. - Author: William H. Hastie

#13. Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won. - Author: William H. Hastie

#14. It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past. - Author: William H. Hastie

#15. The heart of a worshipper is a heart arrested and set free by the love of God. - Author: Gangai Victor

#16. The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane. - Author: David Mitchell