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“Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.”

Knows Wells Doe Country Cities Clear One Thing Threat Western Population Terrorism Strikes Menace

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real.”

Doe Real Country Water Cities Produce Industry Trade Threat Environmental Invisible Borders Grain Scarce Scarcity Imports Irrigation National Borders Aquifers

Author:Lester R. Brown

“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.”

“A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.”

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.”

World Needs Doe Art Soul Hands Cities Art Is Difficulty Variety Permit Proliferation

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“God does not... give people positions or jobs or... good conditions such as they desire; they must do that for themselves.. God does not build cities nor towns nor nations, nor homes, nor factories; men and people do that and all those who want must work for themselves and pray to God to give them strength to do it.”

People Men Want Giving Doe Home Jobs Desire Nations Cities Conditions Position Praying Towns Factories Godly Praying To God

Author:Marcus Garvey

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.”

Source: Sir Winston Churchill, K. G., P. C., O. M., C. H., M. P.: selections from his writings and speeches

“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.”

Doe Soul Lost Cities Tourism

Author:Arthur Frommer

“New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.”

Way Doe Stills Different War Language Cities Century New York Edges Primaries Neighborhood Village Continents Alphabet

Book:What's So Funny?

Source: What's So Funny?

“Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be harmed by the human hubbub, life does not already exist there. If not, then by all means build cities, plant forests and fill lakes and streams with trout -- bring life to Mars and Mars to life. We'll then be the Martians we've been dreaming about for all these years.”

Ifs Years Humans Mean Doe Dream Form Cities Plant Clubs Forests Streams Lakes Subtle Mars Greenhouses Trout Martians

Author:David Grinspoon

“In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.”

Way Trying Doe Lasts Cities Wonder Illusion Court Resorts Starting Over Vegas Las Vegas Reinventing Yourself Last Place

Book:Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

Source: Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

“The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”

Knows Doe Light Cities Silence Darkness Modern Effects Pure Lonely

Author:Johan Huizinga

“All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.”

Want Giving Mean Children Doe Play Home Government Cities Behinds Lord Struggle Fields Amount Garden All Things Mask Our Lord Lord God

Author:Martin Luther

“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.”

Way Doe Helping Body Beautiful Remember Cities Painting Eating Drawing Best Way Flavor Penetrate Beautiful City Beautiful Paintings

Author:Anais Nin

“He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.”

Doe Matter Cities Lord Class Teach Faithful Faithfulness Fidelity Being Faithful Ragged Abbey Westminster Westminster Abbey

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?”

Doe Real Today Answers Cities Worry Real Life Settlement Homogeneous

Book:The Death and Life of American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of American Cities

“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”

Doe Hard Poor Cities New York Identity Cost Elsewhere Affluence Over The Top

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Man, says Protagoras, now has the wisdom necessary for life ... but he does not have political wisdom. At this point, people are living spread out and hence are at the mercy of stronger animals, who begin killing them off.... They seek to save themselves from the beasts by banding together and forming cities. But they do injustice to one another, at such close quarters, because they lack the political art. So, dispersed once more, they begin perishing again.”

People Men Doe Art Together Political Animal Cities Mercy Stronger Killing Injustice Spread Beast Quarters Perishing Political Wisdom Political Art Banding Together

Author:Paul Ludwig Landsberg

“There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.”

Heart Doe Art Spirit Cities Greater Building Art Is Symbols Artistic Hills Rising Scotland Castles Great Cities

Author:Peter Capaldi

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It throws new and interesting people in one's path. There is a dynamic and an energy in cities which is diametric to the life-forces of the forest. Still the cabin is the wellspring, the source, the hub of my existence. It gives me tranquility, a closeness of nature and wildlife, good health and fitness, a sense of security, the opportunity for resourcefulness, reflection and creative thinking.”

“Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.”

Littles Doe Asks House Speak Language Cities Streets Periods Towns Ancient Various Chemistry Squares Uniforms Multitudes Suburbs Symbolism Mazes Calculus Old And New

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.”

Doe States Cities Materials Proud Quiet Conversation Unions Simplicity Prosperity Intellect Intimacy Elsewhere Delightful Grandeur Prominence

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city?”

Wells Doe Problem Cities Mankind Sacred

Author:Willi Unsoeld

“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.”

People May Doe Pain Hurt Pleasure Cities Ready Balance Rose Paris Justification Crowns Martyr Thorns Immorality Frivolity Fierceness Crown Of Thorns Irreligion

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.”

Giving Doe Country Cities Solitude

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.”

Doe Found House Church Cities Hollywood Court Thrown Remarkable Halls Squares City Hall

Author:Vicki Baum

“Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!”

People Doe Nature Cities Flower Rivers Sick Harm Clever Forests Occasions Get Away

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.”

People World Should Believe Doe States Given Force I Believe Nations Community Decision Cities Havens Don't Believe Compromise Inferiors Given Up Defective

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good. What does my faith say about the fact that a girl can't be a nuclear physicist because she's black and from the inner city? My faith says, no, that's not what God intended. It pulls it back into the public arena the idea that there's got to be something fair for all of us.”

Ifs Should Doe Ideas Facts Girl Black Cities Fairs Nuclear Arena Physicist Inner City

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.”

Feels Firsts Heart Doe Cities First Time New Orleans Wild At Heart

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.”

Believe Doe Real Cities Situation Training Call Me Unusual Philadelphia

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in”

World Doe Soul Faces Night Cities Wise Sea Streets Battle Shapes Quiet Draws Shots Horse Trade Dear Bones Forests Gates Camps Pale Bloody Hunters Invited Naps Carts Dear Friend Hounds Warp Weavers

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.”

“I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me.”

World Needs Doe Art Culture Cities Special New York Inspired My Favorite Paris Mexico Something Special Special To Me Art And Culture Very Inspired Favorite City

Author:Diego Boneta

“I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.”

People Knows Should Doe Cities Unions China Consistent Soviet Soviet Union Motor Manhattan Pentagon General Motors

Author:Ralph Nader

“People in the United States don't like to hear it, but puritanical Islam has been on the rise because of our unequivocal policy of absolute support for Israel, regardless of what Israel does - even if they invade Lebanon and bombard a major city like Beirut, full of civilians. Israel has atomic bombs, but we go nuts if any Arab country or Iran develops even nuclear capabilities.”

“I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.”

Thinking Doe Lying Order Cities Towns Architecture Landscape Continuing Cities And Towns

Author:Gottfried Bohm

“Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.”

People Ifs Long Doe Has Beens Seems Cities Half Cost Court Average Population Things To Do Right Thing Grants Shelter Ignored Homeless Housing Nyc Homeless People Eviction

Author:Paul Bettany

“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”

Men World Should Doe Made Earth Mother Community Animal Cities Mistake Worst Mankind Building Evidence Mental Health Isolation Mother Earth Gregarious

Author:Ralph Borsodi