#val

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#attempt #been #brick #building #celebration

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#dozens #engineers #high #high-paying #job

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#arrived #bust #completely #entrepreneurs #fearless

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs. ↗

— Roger Angell

#been #even #i #learned #long

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know. ↗

— David Antin

#coming #fernando #had #hear #i

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval. ↗

— David Antin

#autobiography #her #him #his #husband

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#absolutely #always #calls #criticism #critics

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? ↗

— Archilochus

#another #better #could #cunning #flight

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#most #nation #nuclear #protected #secrets