The book is Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158–1203, by Judith A. Everard,
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.
Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His...
Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
Why this candle?Why this cake?The day of my birth is not today.I was born when you said, 'Hey.
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.