#iron

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#before #endured #here #hours #hundred

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#aware #built #centuries #environment #everyone

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment. ↗

— Rick Allen

#environment #fact #felt #free #happy

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides. ↗

— Judith Anderson

#allows #area #based #basically #bay

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#connection #environment #i #i came #information

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#assumption #case #comparisons #created #each

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#chance #confront #fears #horror #i

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. ↗

— Ernst Moritz Arndt

#brave #brave man #calls #himself #his

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction