“A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals. — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“Applying logic to potentially illogical behaviour is to construct a house on shifting foundations. The structure will inevitably collapse.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There's nobody as good as the Ramones, never will be. I mean everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They… — Tom Kite Copy Share Image
The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?” — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
A lot of guys think you're almost supposed to just get stuff but you've got to put in the work, you've got… — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from. — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I had to change foundations four or five times and I finally found one that I think my skin agrees with. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
“When someone answers a question about the foundations of a subject, it can change everything we know.” — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
I'm actually a ridiculously basic person when it comes to make-up, and I pretty much wear the same things I did when… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
In the end, it's the work my friends and colleagues at foundations do that matters the most. A more just world would… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
