Building Quotes
3027 quotes by 2084 authors
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the…
— Milton Friedman
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It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a…
— Eduardo Galeano
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People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about…
— Meg Whitman
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Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if…
— Sam Zell
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To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It…
— George Porter
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In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my…
— Lance Armstrong
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For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component…
— Jacques Chirac
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First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe…
— Chris Huhne
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While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising -…
— Edward Davey
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Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling…
— Pope Pius XII
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We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each…
— Pope John Paul II
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Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from…
— Adolf Hitler
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
— Oscar Wilde
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty…
— Unknown Author
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every…
— William James
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People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is…
— Wangari Maathai
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All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government.…
— Ronald Reagan
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