Acting Quote by Santiago Calatrava

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

— Ayn Rand

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing…

— John Ruskin

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle:…

— Eric Sevareid

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow…

— Horace

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Obedience to a law which cannot be resisted is not the service of the heart—not the highest tribute to the Creator's glory. Far dearer…

— Margaret Gatty

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

— Baltasar Gracian

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

— Mahatma Gandhi