Built Quotes

2368 quotes by 1817 authors

..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there… — David Lubar
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder… — Umberto Eco
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else. — Robert Cormier
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and… — Michael Pollan
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't? — Sarah Vowell
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when… — J. R. Moehringer
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This… — Mary Oliver
I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in… — William Blake
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. — Oprah Winfrey
You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. — Isaac Asimov
It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all… — Martin Amis
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. — Anne Sexton
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the… — Eric Carle
But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree… — Betty Smith
You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he… — Nora Roberts
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy… — Oscar Wilde
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting… — Anthony Bourdain

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