Horace Quotes

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.

I have converted this Cape from a barren waste…to a desirable place of refreshment.

It is much better to reform than to destroy.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

We need to work to keep from getting rusty.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

They are circumspect to do their actions by advise and councell, and not rashly or inconsiderately

Reform that you may preserve.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

We are out to rebuild the world.

I do not like to see anything destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

I don't do anything without measuring 10 times and cutting once.

Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.

I'll always have to make sure things happen eventually and don't slip from my hands, from under my nose. I'll always have to be on my toes.

Nature recharges me.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.