Construction Quotes

462 quotes by 395 authors

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the… — Mikhail Gorbachev
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould
My construction will cover the entire Universe. — Sathya Sai Baba
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might… — Ian Rankin
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could… — William Zinsser
One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. . . . We will keep on… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches… — David Hilbert
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle… — Francis Parkman
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to… — Anne Enright
The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the… — Jim Harrison
Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal… — William Rothenstein
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other peopleâ€™s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz
The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles)… — Ollie Johnston
Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that… — Charles Lindbergh
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. — Jacques Chirac
American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this… — G. Edward Griffin
That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to… — Paul Watzlawick
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds — Elfriede Jelinek

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