#scrap

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ago #based #because #declaration #economy

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#attribute #comes #everything #function #highest

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#chair #difficult #easier #famous #object

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#drop #go #going #hat #however

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#living #make #playwright #scrape #you

All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#cutting #cutting room #dollars #economic #economic times

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ↗

— Noël Coward

#buildings #cities #london #morality #skyscrapers

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#flap #fly #funny #humor #skyscraper

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... ↗

— Demi Lovato

#inspirational #skyscraper #inspirational

Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands. Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel Like there's nothing left of me? ↗

— Demi Lovato

#lyrics #silence #skyscraper #teardrops #inspirational