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It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is… — Rory Miller
...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza. — Michael Tsarion
You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are transported! You're not… — David Berg
The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the… — David Berg
What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the… — David Berg
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply… — Henry David Thoreau
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends… — Jean Baudrillard
Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes. — David Crabb
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. — Christopher Bollen
To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've… — Misty Copeland
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old… — Jamie Bell
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you… — William J. Clinton
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books… — Pearl S. Buck
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight… — Winston Churchill
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… — Mark Twain
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a… — Stephen King
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient… — Samuel Johnson
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere… — Leonardo da Vinci
We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so… — Pablo Neruda
Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than… — Henry Moore
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a… — Andre Malraux

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