Built Quotes

2368 quotes by 1817 authors

Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action."… — Eoin Colfer
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of menâ€™s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world? — Ismail KadarÃ©
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature… — Justin Cronin
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. — George Washington
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact,… — Neal Shusterman
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself… — Oscar Wilde
Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse. — J R Ward
I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter. — Alexandra Adornetto
Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their dÃ©cor, their… — Tana French
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From… — Terry Goodkind
Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended… — J R Ward
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined,… — George Orwell
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology… — Neal Stephenson
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal… — Siri Hustvedt
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in… — Oscar Wilde
All happiness is built upon small efforts. — Hiroyuki Takei
Iâ€™ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself — Haruki Murakami

Who Wrote These Built Quotes

1,817 authors contributed a total of 2,368 Built Quotes, led by these top contributors: