Edifices Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
— George Santayana
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Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence…
— Dan Simmons
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We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could…
— Frederick Lenz
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The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the…
— Charles Colson
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What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal…
— Frederick Lenz
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,…
— John Ruskin
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Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been…
— Martin Filler
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
— Margaret Atwood
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Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of…
— Rick Yancey
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The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new,…
— Henri Poincare
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Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other…
— James Fenimore Cooper
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The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be…
— Vitruvius
Who Wrote These Edifices Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Edifices Quotes as follows: