A Quote by Louis Sullivan

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Louis Sullivan

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All Time Mankind Most Possession Saturated Sorrows Time Treacherous Words

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Louis Sullivan
American - Architect
September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Amin Maalouf

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

Theodorus Gaza

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

Ted Nelson

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Taylor Caldwell

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

Augusten Burroughs

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

Elias Lyman Magoon

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

Robert Reich

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

Our generation is the most cinematically saturated of all time. Videotapes, DVD's, streaming... Spielberg... all of it has thrust us into an endless loop of consumption.

Weyes Blood

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

Os Guinness

Sometimes, the easiest food to get your hands on is the stuff that's the worst for you. It's the most high in saturated fat. It's the most calorie dense, and it's really the least nutritiously beneficial stuff.

Josh Gates

Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

Gena Showalter

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.