#ace

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#panacea #poison #power #synthesis #tonic

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#again #became #convincing #descent #design

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown. ↗

— William Booth

#cross #crown #else #must #our

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#does #place #spirit

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#change #maryland #people #place #ready

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#development #form #impact #intuitive #itself

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#corp #go #infiltrate #into #marine

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse. ↗

— Julius Erving

#effort #else #faced #find #going

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. ↗

— Elliott Erwitt

#art #everything #finding #found #i

By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd! ↗

— Elizabeth George

#peace #food