#heir

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architect #as far as #build #buildings #bury

Men create the gods in their own image. ↗

— Xenophanes

#gods #image #men #own #their

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#everyone #hatred #play #role #should

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#buildings #criticized #i #incorporating #our

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#behind #black #broken #feet #god

[…] One night, five men from Nuweiba were travelling past the mountain, and one of them fell behind, and was separated from his companions. As the man – whom we will call Ahmed – wandered in the darkness, wondering where his friends had gone, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared out of the night and blocked his path. She gave him a choice: ‘Sex, or be eaten!’ It was not a difficult decision. As the Bedouins put it, ‘the man did what a man has to do.’ […] ↗

— Robert W. Lebling

#hilarity #jinn #supernatural #beauty

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#others #own #poor #prevented #rich

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. ↗

— Todd Akin

#history #iraqi #iraqi people #moment #people

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#also #anyone #art #i #living

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#always #carried #dramatic #fact #fight