#inhabit

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#anything #architecture #both #course #ecstatic

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#entire #europe #fourth #half #inhabitants

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attend #calculation #children #cost #inhabiting

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty. ↗

— William Odom

#allied #every #germany #had #hundred

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#around #dead #died #domain #ghost

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

#give #inhabit #lack #make #orders

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#department #environment #evolve #homeland #homeland security

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject. ↗

— James Otis

#another #appear #behalf #considered #i