Built Quotes

2368 quotes by 1817 authors

Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of… — Mira Grant
A house built on greed cannot long endure. — Edward Abbey
He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death.… — Ellen Hopkins
A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You… — Cinda Williams Chima
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. — Catherynne M. Valente
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction,… — Penelope Lively
People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I… — Ilona Andrews
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive. — Parker J. Palmer
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial. — Pope John Paul II
that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. — John Green
But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same… — Darynda Jones
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and… — Nick Cave
willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead. — Lauren Oliver
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say Iâ€™m sorry, to say itâ€™s okay, to say I forgive… — Sara Zarr
A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly… — Rachel Simon
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are… — Ivo Andric
In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have,… — K.P. Yohannan
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable,… — Jasper Fforde
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and… — Rebecca West

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