Bad Ass Quotes - Page 6

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

Some age. Others mature.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.

Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.

Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

Your life is on the line, practice well.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

I taught the Constitution for ten years, I believe in the Constitution.

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

I'm brandin', I aint talking bout Presley. I keep a sniper, I aint talking bout Wesley.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.