Designs Quotes

271 Designs quotes by 224 unique authors

As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he… — Charlaine Harris
Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of… — Suzanne Collins
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life. — Maria Montessori
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because… — Richard Dawkins
This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And… — Terry Pratchett
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in… — David Byrne
…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to… — Rohinton Mistry
Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be… — Georgette Heyer
A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design… — Connie Willis
A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also… — Ron Paul
I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile. — Rick Riordan
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an… — C.S. Lewis
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as… — Philip Yancey
Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't… — Craig Silvey
...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery... — John le Carre
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants… — Temple Grandin
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and… — Johan Huizinga
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most… — Edmund Burke
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo. — Mark Twain
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But… — Thomas Heatherwick
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the… — Martin Filler

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