Built Quotes

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches… — Milan Kundera
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that… — Neal Stephenson
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined… — Daisaku Ikeda
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,… — Mary Oliver
The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. — David Sedaris
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work… — Barbara Kingsolver
This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine… — Shel Silverstein
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high...… — Stephen King
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll… — Donald Miller
You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm,… — Rodman Philbrick
It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to… — Deb Caletti
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and… — Neal Stephenson
It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as… — Colum McCann
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. — Pete Wentz
The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.… — Steven Galloway
I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at… — Nicholas Sparks
You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist.… — Terry Pratchett

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