Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is… — Claudio Magris
Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has nothing to do… — Stephen Weiss
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to think of a… — Simon Schama
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a… — Thom Mayne
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. — Scott Jurek
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges.… — Marshall Ulrich
A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories. — Mark Rubinstein
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell
Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .… — Julian Baggini
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,… — Elizabeth Spires
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. — Gustav Mahler
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. — Anselm Kiefer
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires… — Eric Voegelin
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no picturesâ€”unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement.… — John W. Davis
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions… — Reynolds Price
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like,… — Anne Carson
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are… — Orson Pratt
When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place;… — Frithjof Schuon
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals,… — Leonard Sax

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