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
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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?
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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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.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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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.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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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.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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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.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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I only understand realism.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.
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Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
