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
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
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders. — Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal Copy Share Image
Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by… — Arundhati Roy 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
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice… — Barton Gellman 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
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
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II 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
Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions,… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel... for without it, the edifice of an… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“You will arise, so start by attempting to rise. Don't give space for failure to erect local huts in your land; agree… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a… — A. Hunter Dupree Copy Share Image
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us,… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
