Adjustment Quote by Richard Whately

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Look beneath the surface. Things are usually very different from how they initially appeared, and ignorance, which didn't look beneath the surface, turns to…

— Baltasar Gracián

A house built on lies has a weak foundation.

— Anonymous

If a building has been condemned or it's left to ruin, I get so upset. I feel something really deeply about it. I don't…

— James Haven

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

— Ayn Rand

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

— Aleister Crowley

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

— Hugh MacDiarmid

The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

— Plato

Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible…

— Mervyn Peake