M.K. Alexander Quotes

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

To win the Calder Trophy means a lot. It means a lot. I don't have words. I could tell you in Russian.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.