Constructed Quotes

277 quotes by 254 authors

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend… — Tyler Cowen
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not… — Martin Jacques
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian… — Noam Chomsky
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form,… — Christian Dior
I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of… — Theodore Bikel
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases recognized… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and… — Jonathan Turley
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and… — Kate Reardon
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up… — Edmund White
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was… — Thomas Kretschmann
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed… — Andrew Taylor Still
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of… — John Fiske
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. — Robert Shea
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of… — John Hutton
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of… — George Stephenson
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the… — Edward Sapir
Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. — Alberto Giacometti
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to… — Terry Zwigoff
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that… — Ian Mcewan

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