#never

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#charges #consider #estimate #exactly #first

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. ↗

— Maya Lin

#against #antisocial #failed #fundamentally #i

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #building #business #i #into

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. ↗

— Maya Lin

#drawn #get #most #never #part

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. ↗

— Maya Lin

#apart #architecture #art #crazy #creatures

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#consideration #could #deserves #existed #first

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#confidence #esteem #forfeit #never #once

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise