#some

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#calculations #complex #experience #interesting #just

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#beautiful place #because #become #below #competition

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#be true #believe #everything #hear #lawyers

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#always #better #build #cards #castles

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#connects #free #friction #gliding #habit

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#comes #earth #exists #heaven #made

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#form #imitation #namely #opposite #something

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#occupies #official #position #say #someone

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#deny #draw #drawing #experience #good

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#beans #cook #food #grew #i