Built Quotes

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We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in… — Kurt Vonnegut
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a… — Augusten Burroughs
I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you. — Nora Roberts
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us… — John le Carre
You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with… — Michael Ondaatje
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost totalâ€¦ Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad… — Carl Sagan
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. — Dave Barry
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. — Gene Roddenberry
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful… — Mark Twain
Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang… — William Butler Yeats
The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you… — Charles Bukowski
No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall.… — Roland Smith
Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization… — Matthew Woodring Stover
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. — Robert A. Heinlein
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. — Thomas Paine

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