A Quotes
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“All architecture is, metaphorically, a shadow cast on a cave wall. Architecture is a version of the truth – a version of sense – proposed by the architect and realised in the physical form of buildings and the identification of places for inhabitation.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
“All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
“All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.”
“All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.”
“All are / naked, none is safe.”
Source: Complete Poems
“All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted
“All are born a savage and most die a savage, only a handful die the death of a human.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“All are born in this world are humans but few act humanely.”
“All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.”
“All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to everyone. That is Unity... the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.”
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
“All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.”
“All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.”
“All are equal – what incredible, intelligent bullshit.”
“All are fools and fooled, but no one is completely a fool.”
“All are fools, but not no one is entirely a fool.”
“All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief”
“All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends,
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still.”
Source: Pollok's Course of Time
“All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living on the margins of society, particularly kids.”
“All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.”
Source: Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
“All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.”
“All are not merry that dance lightly.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.”
“All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“All are one”
“All are one family, serve all.”
“All are one. Right now. In this moment. In every moment we stop to recognize something of ourselves in each other. Unity isn’t some hoped-for event. It’s a matter of perception.”
“All are presumed good till they are found at fault.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.”
“All are so obsessed with comfort and luxury, that they rebel most vehemently when their wi-fi is down, but do nothing when their neighbor is down.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday
“All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.”
Source: The Stones of Venice...
“ALL ARE WELCOME. (NO FIGHTING.) That rule is simple on the surface, but not easy in the execution, because Maz Kanata's castle has been a meeting place since time immemorial-- a nexus point drawing together countless lines of allegiance and opposition, a place not only where friend and foe can meet, but where complex conflicts are worn down flat so that all may sit, have a drink and a meal, listen to a song, and broker whatever deals their hearts or politics require. That's why the flags outside her castle represent hundreds of cities and civilizations and guilds from before forever. The galaxy is not now, nor has it ever been, two polar forces battling for supremacy. It has been thousands of forces: a tug-of-war not with as ingle rope but a spider's web of influence, dominance, and desire. Clans and cults, tribes and families, governments and anti-governments. Queens, satraps, warlords! Diplomats, buccaneers, droids! Slicers, spicers, ramblers, and gamblers! To repeat: ALL ARE WELCOME. (NO FIGHTING.)”
Source: Life Debt
“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
“All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.”
“All around him, life carried on as usual on the American side of the river. The region was already seven years into the drug war, and it had all taken on a surreal normality. A block away from where he’d parked his squad car, people went about their shopping in the downtown stores, while Mexicans—some of them innocent bystanders—died in the city across the river.”
Source: Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty
“All around him the branches of the trees had frozen solid, reaching out white fingers of glass that looked as if they would shatter in any breeze, or chime like musical bells. The world looked strangely magical.”
Source: Chill
“All around is full of light,
The new day has started again;
The birds of the dawn sang a while ago,
Everyone wakes up in the morning;
And don't sleep alone,
Open your eyes and look;
See how beautiful nature is!
I wish you a very good day and a Good Morning.”
Source: The Girl with Gujubu
“All around me, campers started kneeling, even the Ares cabin, though they didn't look happy about it.
'My father?' I asked, completely bewildered.
'Poseidon,' said Chiron. 'Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God.”
Source: The lightning thief
“All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.”
“All around me doors into other worlds began appearing but I knew the one I wanted, the one into which everything forgotten flows. The edges of that door were frayed and worn by the passage of old ideas leaving the world.”
Source: Piranesi
“All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.”
Source: The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed
“All around me is cowardice and deceit.”
“All around me it’s black. So black I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to find my way back. I’m not sure I want to find my way back. That’s a devastating thought, knowing I’m drifting to that edge, knowing I’m flirting with that dark void that whispers to me from the other side. Taunting me with numbness. Calling to me with emptiness.”
Source: Tragic Beauty
“All around me new love and it makes me sad. All around me feel assured that you'll be back, if I imagine you, body next to another.”