Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Oswald Chambers

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

Oscar Niemeyer

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

Oscar Niemeyer

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Octavian Paler

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

Peter Bofinger

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Phillips Brooks

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

Philippe Falardeau

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Peggy Noonan

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Richard Baxter

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

Robert Capa

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

Roy Cohn

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

Ranulph Fiennes

You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.

Richard Feynman

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Richard Feynman

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

Raymond Hull

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

Robin Marantz Henig

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Ray Kroc