Construction Quotes

462 quotes by 403 authors

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he… — Albert Einstein
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them… — Alexander Hamilton
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give… — Alexander Hamilton
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. — Thomas Jefferson
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought… — Thomas Jefferson
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the… — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has… — Thomas Jefferson
The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement… — Emile Argand
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. — Walter Benjamin
They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano — Clark Gable
Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales… — Bill Rancic
More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and… — Nico Tortorella
Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10… — Giuseppe Zanotti
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe
There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction.… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku
I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of… — Robert Kirkman
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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