William H. Whyte Quotes
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
Quotes to Explore
-
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
-
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
-
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
-
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
-
Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
-
Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
-
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
-
My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
-
I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
-
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
-
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
-
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
-
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
-
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
-
I only understand realism.
-
There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
-
I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
-
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
-
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.
-
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
-
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
-
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.
-
You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
-
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
