Built Quotes

2368 quotes by 1817 authors

Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. Itâ€™s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all… — Dorianne Laux
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time. — Nicholas Sparks
You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built… — Catherynne M. Valente
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built… — Mindy Kaling
He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the… — E. M. Forster
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the… — Peter Rollins
Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like… — Veronica Roth
Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks — Stephen King
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the… — Deepak Chopra
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then… — John Green
Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different… — Arundhati Roy
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair Iâ€™m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. Iâ€™m gonna fall apart,… — John Green
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by… — Orhan Pamuk
The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which… — Bertrand Russell
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we… — Kim Harrison
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the… — John Green
What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on… — Julie Anne Peters

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