#tent

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. ↗

— Aesop

#be happy #discontented #happy #place #seldom

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ↗

— Aesop

#content #everything #first #lot #your

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful. ↗

— John R. Allen

#constructive #critical #extent #going #here

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#been #candidate #candidates #careful #intentions

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. ↗

— Lord Acton

#book #content #favourites #others #seek

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#going #i #just #me #mean

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#blood #content #iron #our #reason

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#before #guilty #innocent #more #oftentimes