Builds Quotes
411 Builds quotes by 343 unique authors
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Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the…
— James Allen
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of…
— Karen Joy Fowler
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Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in…
— Gregory Maguire
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The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
— Naomi Klein
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Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of…
— Naomi Wolf
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Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,…
— Orson Scott Card
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The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like…
— Grace Metalious
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Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading…
— Gary Soto
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
— George Eliot
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Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.
— Thomas S. Monson
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience,…
— Orson F. Whitney
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every…
— Sharon Shinn
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Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of…
— Dave Eggers
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
— Stephen Covey
Who Wrote These Builds Quotes
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