Built Quotes
2368 quotes by 1817 authors
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Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great…
— Caroline Knapp
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I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the…
— John Green
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But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge…
— Lauren Oliver
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is…
— Amelia Earhart
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Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile…
— Neal Stephenson
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We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
— Haruki Murakami
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Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it…
— Neal Shusterman
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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built…
— Adolf Hitler
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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding…
— Robin Sloan
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The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret…
— Robin Sloan
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Anna: “I thought Indians built fires with fiction.†Charles: “I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so.…
— Patricia Briggs
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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding…
— Robin Sloan
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What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill…
— Atul Gawande
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Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of…
— Dan Simmons
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Tea? Good God, no. It's mud. How the British ever built an empire drinking the filthy stuff is beyond me. And if we carry on…
— Charlie Higson
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The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe…
— Paulo Coelho
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about…
— Isaac Marion
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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