#nation

An idea is salvation by imagination. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#imagination #salvation

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#direct #individual #internationalism #life #only

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them. ↗

— Georg Henrik von Wright

#companies #gigantic #industrial #longer #operate

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#artists #diffused #finding #get #i

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. ↗

— Elinor Wylie

#able #am #better #heaven #hell

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concubine #devotion #dignity #freedom #honor

I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#better #better life #changes #deserves #good

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#border #both #committed #course #eastern

I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible. ↗

— Michael Gira

#imagination

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#commercialism #feeling #hero #personal #personal feeling