Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that… — Terry Pratchett
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from… — Tim Wise
Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just… — Steve Jobs
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I donâ€™t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived… — Fernando Pessoa
You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw… — Karen Marie Moning
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until whatâ€™s left is all construct, all… — Holly Black
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the… — Peter Rollins
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are… — Alan Turing
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's… — Steve Toltz
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time sheâ€™d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her… — James Dashner
God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you construct for yourself, or… — Tullian Tchividjian
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with… — Peter Rollins
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and… — Johan Huizinga
It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want… — John Taylor Gatto
The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology… — Tony Benn
Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles… — Richard Hornby
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect… — William Jennings Bryan

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