Edifice Quotes

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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. — Arundhati Roy
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had… — Diane Setterfield
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;… — Salman Rushdie
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly… — Rene Descartes
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. — Joshua Foer
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on oneâ€™s guard, catching every glance, the significance… — Mikhail Lermontov
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. — Abdoulaye Wade
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks… — Seth Shostak
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective… — Charles H. Townes
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. — C. V. Raman
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice -… — Jan Hus
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and… — Malcolm Turnbull
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The… — Ambrose Bierce
Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a perfect structure, dedicated… — Unknown Author
One of lifes hard moments is when you are trying to get someone out of the fire consuming her edifice while your own house is… — Melchor Lim
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me… — Frank McCourt

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