Construct Quotes

294 quotes by 269 authors

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie.… — Saul Williams
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. — Robert Anton Wilson
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing… — Julian Baggini
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I… — Luigi Pirandello
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had… — Cormac McCarthy
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion… — Dalai Lama
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or… — Salman Rushdie
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when… — Orson Scott Card
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… — Erich Fromm
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses… — John Barth
In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. — Kate Atkinson
My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a… — Jodi Picoult
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of… — Jeanette Winterson
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. — Immanuel Kant
Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find… — Stacy Schiff
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that… — Bell Hooks
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical… — Frank Beddor

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