#bed

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. ↗

— William Ames

#appropriately #body #capable #first #god

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#building #concept #craft #design #detail

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#been #history #i #who

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#described #love #perfection #properly #study

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#civil society #embedded #governance #hemisphere #institutions

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bed #eats #evil #human #our

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#guidance #men #obedience #rules #wise

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#bombed #brought #fell #home #house