Built Quotes

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From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open… — Richard Bach
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between… — Rebecca Solnit
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to… — John Steinbeck
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses… — Edward R. Murrow
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes… — James Allen
We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. — Robert Wright
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions… — Marilynne Robinson
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. — Oswald Chambers
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are… — Maya Angelou
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -… — Albert Einstein
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have… — Sue Monk Kidd
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that. — Mikhail Bulgakov
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric… — Charles Bukowski
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a… — Aldo Leopold
We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take… — Alberto Manguel
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. — Albert Einstein
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon
You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll… — Ayn Rand

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