#cape

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic government #escape #government #obligation #only

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#big #big city #build #caused #city

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#character #correspond #german #landscape #roads

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. ↗

— Robert Towne

#areas #because #built #california #cape

Horses make a landscape look beautiful. ↗

— Alice Walker

#horses #landscape #look #make

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#brought #course #death #escape #idea

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#being #cannot #china #close #contemplation

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it. ↗

— Tom Welling

#big #escape #going #i #i love