Ties Quotes - Page 28

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."

We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.