Built Quotes

2368 quotes by 1817 authors

....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel… — Joshua Harris
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a… — Cassandra Clare
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature… — William Shakespeare
That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want. — Chris Cleave
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that… — Truman Capote
Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than… — Harlan Coben
It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am… — Lisa See
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can… — Steig Larsson
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back.… — Patricia A. McKillip
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to… — Deb Caletti
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the… — Thomas Merton
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about… — Elizabeth Gilbert
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — Haruki Murakami
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move… — Michel de Certeau
I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of… — Stephenie Meyer
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan… — Stanislav Grof
God save the Queen and a fascist regime â€¦ a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the… — William S. Burroughs
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck

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