英语的名言名句

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

Harold Acton

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Nicola Abbagnano

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. Alvar Aalto

Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Alvar Aalto

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Alvar Aalto

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Alvar Aalto

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Theodore Roosevelt

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. Theodore Roosevelt

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Theodore Roosevelt

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Theodore Roosevelt

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Theodore Roosevelt

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Theodore Roosevelt

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt