I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast… — Vhils Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I endorse without reserve the much-abused sentiment of Gov. M'Duffie, that "slavery is the corner stone of our Republican edifice;" while I… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed. — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
