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
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
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
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin 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
It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how… — Jean Sylvain Bailly 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
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls,… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd 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
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce 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
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. — Abdoulaye Wade Copy Share Image
In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall… — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be… — George Porter Copy Share Image
There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
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
