Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gulli...bility of the most formidable consumers--the rich.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design... Which by my presence might have been concluded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs?... And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, f...or the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise C...ommiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means... of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is pract...icable; and to make this custom the more significant, practise it first upon yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »