Bad Ass Quotes - Page 5

You can't love other people until you love yourself.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

Everyday is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any laws, under your theory, that he actually HAS to enforce?

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong. Make up your own mind after you evaluate all the evidence and the logic.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.

To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.