Constructed Quotes

277 quotes by 254 authors

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow,… — Andrea Dworkin
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again. — Lisa Unger
Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who… — P.G. Wodehouse
Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it. — David Eagleman
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind… — Thomas Sowell
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking. — Cassandra Clare
...the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings… — Michio Kaku
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. — Abdoulaye Wade
When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There… — Leonardo da Vinci
Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the… — Eleanor Farjeon
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.… — Morton Feldman
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,… — Pete Townshend
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains. — Swami Brahmananda
Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing. Not so much… — George Spencer-Brown
A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements,… — Leonardo da Vinci
While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided… — Gregory Maguire
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for… — Robert LaSardo
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is… — Richard Rogers
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. — William Cullen Bryant

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