The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed. — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed. — Arun Jaitley 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
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
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states. — Lucan 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
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
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked… — Seth Shostak 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
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle… — Dmitri Mendeleev 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
In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished… — Jonah Goldberg 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
Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and… — Max Planck 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
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison 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
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The truth is not that the problem is the newsroom does not understand capitalism. The problem is that the front office does… — Hodding Carter III 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
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice… — Victor Hugo 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
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to… — John Ruskin 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
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
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
