#visions

The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#dreams

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#bought #got #investment #liquor #money

The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#actions #based #civil #civil liberties #found

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#fresh #interpret #life #purpose #reproduce

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#clarified #clause #duty #further #initiative

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence. ↗

— Ma Jian

#days #decades #each #gone #i

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#apart #complete #enemy #fall #grandeur

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. ↗

— Robert Redford

#new #new ideas #starved #visions #voices