Built Quotes

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and… — Mark Twain
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. — Oscar Wilde
Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the… — Josephus
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a… — Bertrand Russell
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. — Agnes Repplier
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which… — Salmon P. Chase
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town,… — Alexander Hamilton
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of… — Norman Cousins
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political… — Joe Greene
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen...… — David Ben-Gurion
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be… — Karl Kraus
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,… — Lenny Bruce
When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are… — Neil Postman
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man… — Thor Heyerdahl
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. — Josephine Baker
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues. — Ezra Taft Benson
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. — Hafez

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