#vita

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#down #economy #every #healthy #healthy economy

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. ↗

— Simone Weil

#country #help #interests #live #make

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

#church #considered #degenerate #inevitably #into

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#always #beating #brooklyn #come #fight

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #architectural #architecture #beginning #beijing

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ↗

— Rebecca West

#experience #gulf #side #than #thither

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great. ↗

— Randy West

#argue #could #easily #first #game

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection. ↗

— Edward Weston

#before #composition #consult #consulting #deduced

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#adventure #custodians #die #done #fervor

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#class #few #lands #other #other lands