We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
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Related The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We are here to create, not destroy. VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ... HENRY CLOUD The district feels we all have the same goal, and that is to create a quality program for our studen... MARGARET DININNO We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solu... ROGIER VAN DER HEIDE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Maybe we have to create another ordinance. COUNCILOR DENNIS EANIRI Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's something that these athletes, beyond their physical talent, are doing that could be benefic... STEVE SHENBAUM Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate wa... DALAL GEBARA Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being childish and naïve. Perhaps naivety is simply the unwilli... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We want to clarify where we are going with all of these products and help people view their technolo... DAN NORTON We deal with about 50 different Amish families from Ohio who hand-make all our furniture. We have 40... JOHN MANCINI Our film's a sort of political action. Maybe 60 or 70 percent of what happens on screen is factually... BAHADIR OZDENER Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, ... BRANDON SANDERSON George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little ... MIRA GRANT A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We built this race on three objectives: to create a great experience for riders, the communities and... BOB COLAROSSI We played against very good teams, playoff teams for sure, maybe candidates to win the Stanley Cup. ... JAROMIR JAGR I like to believe that I believe, and yet, I think I know the truth of the matter. ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR The quality of teams in this league is outstanding. It's the best conference in the country. No one ... JAMIE DIXON Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely th... PHILIP JOHNSON We don't have an ace yet; maybe two aces. RAJU PATEL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO We stabilized their guards and played maybe our best half of the season. BOB HODGSON We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR TRUTH." "Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa... DAN BROWN Tom's work was very important, and the way that we will honor him is to try to continue that work, m... ANNE BACON So many land managers and owners are doing incredible work in vegetation management. We want to help... TIM KNIGHT We are excited about it. We have 40 boats coming and maybe more, maybe 40 to 50. DAVE TAYLOR We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else ca... HUBERT BURDA Maybe I stop talking because I don't know what to say. Or maybe I stop because I finally get that so... HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incenti... IBRAHIM RUGOVA Union Square II will continue with the Class A and prestigious quality provided in Union Square I be... DREW LEWIS Through the LAYLC, we like to say that are investing in tomorrow's leaders today. We are hoping to h... FRAN INMAN We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth,... KILROY J. OLDSTER Maybe we learned something from this one. He's the best athlete we have. MATT CAMERON What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... CANDACE BUSHNELL The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God. L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY We have excellent facilities, we would say these are the best facilities in the world. ANDREAS BLEICHER I think this is a wake-up call for Korean Americans to realize we are [still] immigrants in this cou... HUN KIM They deserve to have the best quality of life that's possible and we want to provide that for them. JANICE MCCARTHY To preserve and improve (these properties) is the desired outcome. We want Elkhart's neighborhoods t... WAYNE KRAMER We don't want to say 'Hey, let's go close Bonita.' when maybe there's another school in the parish t... KRIS MCKOIN Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c... C. JOYBELL C. They didn't say no, they said maybe, ... Before we expend money we needed some indication that we we... GEORGE WEBER Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represe... ZOROASTER God is the creator of incredible beauty and all that He envisioned and desired to create, He also de... MICHELLE CARBOTTE The Search for Truth is a Search for Identity, that in finding Truth, we find Ourselves. NEIL SUTTON We had the game. We had it in our pocket and gave it to them. Maybe we were confident. Maybe we thou... JAREN JACKSON I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts pe... EMILY BROWNING What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we... RONALD REAGAN We played against the 18th-ranked team out of maybe 350 Division I programs, so we're talking maybe ... LESLEY SHEEHAN The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - t... EDDIE VEDDER for Congress and states to say maybe there are areas of coastal land where we simply shouldn't build... LARRY LARSON I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we d... UMBERTO ECO Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease... LAUREN OLIVER I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge ever... STEPHEN HAWKING There is beauty in every one SOTONYE ANGA
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