Building Quotes
3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors
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Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
— Stephen King
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This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else…
— Cecelia Ahern
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We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies…
— Betty Williams
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If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by…
— Hans Zinsser
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple…
— Simon Newcomb
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building…
— Karl Popper
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There…
— Charles Francis Richter
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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove…
— Mark Twain
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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement…
— Steven Chu
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I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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... When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base.…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body…
— Michael Shermer
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Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we…
— William J. Clinton
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Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
— Richard Dawkins
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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots…
— C.S. Lewis
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building…
— Dee Hock
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Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter…
— Thomas J. Stanley
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To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a…
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the…
— Helen Keller
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You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
— Henry Ford
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