Ties Quotes - Page 8

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.