Building Quotes
3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors
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For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal…
— Veronica Roth
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I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day…
— Charles Bukowski
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I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this…
— Veronica Roth
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an…
— Alan Lightman
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Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
— Helmut Jahn
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The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in…
— Robert Collier
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Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
— Cullen Hightower
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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his…
— Unknown Author
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I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of…
— Edward Norton
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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond…
— Peter Drucker
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I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of…
— Unknown Author
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Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
— George W. Bush
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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past…
— Alan Paton
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Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
— Jane Jacobs
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It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure…
— Mark Twain
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Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
— Daniel Goleman
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Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:…
— Jacques Barzun
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Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building…
— Kofi Annan
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