A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
PRINCE CHARLESI think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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