Built Quotes

2368 Built quotes by 1817 unique authors

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief… — Jane Austen
Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops… — Steve Grand
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the… — Gaston Bachelard
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted… — Larry Wall
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. — Unknown Author
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. — Lionel Shriver
I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she… — Nicole Krauss
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but… — Kim Edwards
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them,… — Maya Angelou
Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. — Bill Watterson
From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open… — Richard Bach
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between… — Rebecca Solnit
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to… — John Steinbeck
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses… — Edward R. Murrow
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes… — James Allen
We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. — Robert Wright
Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions… — Marilynne Robinson
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. — Oswald Chambers
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are… — Maya Angelou
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -… — Albert Einstein
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have… — Sue Monk Kidd
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that. — Mikhail Bulgakov
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric… — Charles Bukowski

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