The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958
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Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCDemocracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCThe Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCEnemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903