Frederick Law Olmsted Quotes

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1822 - August 28, 1903

Topics

TruthPowerWorldAlwaysOver

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

Jim Sturgess

I AmPeopleBreakfastDoingYou

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Jimi Hendrix

NatureTimeEnjoyTryingSameStill

I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.

Joel Embiid

LovePeopleMeEnjoyYouGym

Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?

Ann Wilson

TimeWordsWorldSayWorstHuman

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

Stephen Kinzer

FocusLoseInterestOtherAuthors

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

Steven Pinker

PlantsBehaviorWantDefendEatUs

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Robert Crumb

LifePeopleMeDrawingYoungShy

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Ronald Reagan

FutureBraveBelongBelongs

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

Ross Levinsohn

WorldBelieveDominantMostYahoo

A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty for at least a third of the population of country tremendously wealthy thanks to oil.

Mona Eltahawy

FreedomPolicePovertyCountryNever

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

Debbie Allen

TimeRadioShootingScoringLot

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

BeginningToolsViewPoint Of View

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