Construction Quotes

• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Roots

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Creativity, Differences

  Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Foundation

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• The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

  Helen Keller

  Knowledge, World, Imaginary

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.44, The Floating Press

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• When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, War, Men

  "31st President Achieved Prominence in Four Major Careers During His Lifetime". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 21, 1964.

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• If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Doe, Looks

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• When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

  Henri Matisse

  House, Together, Fit

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• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  Walter Benjamin

  Power, Facts, Life Is

  Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

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• The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Distance, Two, Unbearable

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• In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

  Claudio Hummes

  Facts, Individual, Poor

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• Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Steps, Program, Refinement

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• Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

  Adrienne Clarkson

  Cutting, Glasses, Pieces

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• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  Major Owens

  School, Technology, Together

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  Ed Markey

  Couple, Children, Simple

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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Engineering

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• This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Strong, Mean, Support

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• We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  America, Action, Rhetoric

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• In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

  Al Roker

  Pregnancy, Female, Realizing

  Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

  Tabare Vazquez

  Responsibility, Working Together, Aging

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• I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

  Jeff Miller

  Facts, Management, Plant

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• Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kind, Substitutes, Solidarity

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Technology, Add

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