Building Quotes
3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors
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Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of…
— Yasuhiko Kimura
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with…
— Daniel Alarcon
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Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.
— Muriel Barbery
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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we…
— Christmas Humphreys
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A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
— Mark Lawrence
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When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture…
— Jonathan Hale
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I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing…
— Neil Gaiman
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Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many…
— Justin Kan
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to…
— Adam Braun
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All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.
— Valerie Thomas
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If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
— C.S. Lewis
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The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the…
— Sufjan Stevens
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I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate…
— Craig Stone
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When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can…
— Craig Stone
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There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a…
— Ronald Reagan
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After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.
— Harriet Van Horne
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I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and…
— Unknown Author
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At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd…
— David Gelernter
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Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more…
— Ron Fournier
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Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
— Ron Fournier
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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
— Matthew Fox
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