Construction Quotes

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On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course,… — Arthur C. Clarke
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hungerâ€¦ they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if… — Tacitus
In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with… — Miyamoto Musashi
I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner. — Franz Kafka
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning… — Flannery O'Connor
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant… — Wilkie Collins
Expectations are resentments under construction. — Anne Lamott
What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing… — Chuck Klosterman
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found… — Alice Sebold
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and… — Zadie Smith
We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow;… — Jean Vanier
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be… — Charles Dickens
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's… — Dave Eggers
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within… — Aberjhani
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. — Margaret Atwood
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts… — Judith Butler
Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work.… — Joss Whedon
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even… — Michael Pollan

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