Use Quotes - Page 11

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.

The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

I can say, through the power of the Spirit that wherever God can get a people that will come together in one accord and one mind in the Word of God, the baptism of the Holy Ghost will fall upon them, like as at Cornelius' house.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

I refuse to live my life in fear.

Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.

Manage the cause, not the result.