Quotes by Architects - Page 2

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?
Arthur Brown
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.
Rudolph Steiner
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Thomas Jefferson
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.
Thomas Jefferson
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
The sun - my almighty physician.
Thomas Jefferson
Music is only sound expressing certain patterns so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?
Arthur Brown
I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
Thomas Jefferson
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
Thomas Jefferson
The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
Thomas Jefferson
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
Thomas Jefferson
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson
That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
Thomas Jefferson
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
God is a verb not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham
France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God if He ever had a chosen people whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
Faith in oneself... is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo