Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape. John Ruskin
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure....
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Graham Greene
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
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Woody Allen
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
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Marshall McLuhan
Those who understand will understand.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength
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Jonathan Star
More Quotes By John Ruskin
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
