Built Quotes

2368 quotes by 1884 authors

Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. — Margaret Atwood
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it. — Margaret Atwood
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back… — Sai Baba
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built… — Ibrahim Babangida
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Francis Bacon
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not… — Christian Bale
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the… — Ansel Adams
We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming… — Afrika Bambaataa
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the… — Amelia Barr
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo. — Gary Bauer
We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was. — Glenn Beck
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. — Martha Beck
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and… — Samuel Beckett
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the… — Joseph Addison
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs. — Adele
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man… — Pope Benedict XVI
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one… — Walter Benjamin
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away… — Ezra Taft Benson

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