Builder Quotes - Page 8

• You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

  Rick Yancey

  Ears, Clay, Masters

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Bridges, Gas Stations, Actors

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• The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

  Hans Selye

  Car, Racing, Drivers

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

  Heber J. Grant

  Men, Architect, Feels

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• I started to really believe in myself, and my abilities, when I won the World Under-10 championship in Doral, Florida. I was nine and saw for the first time that I was amongst the best players in the world for my age. This was a massive confidence-builder for me.

  Rory McIlroy

  Believe, Player, Florida

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Promise, Volume

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 17,

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• There's a word the teabaggers have wanted to use since Obama came on the scene, but they can't because it's not the 1950s. They would love to say this word. It begins with an N and ends with -er, and it's not "nation-builder."

  Bill Maher

  Use, Scene, Ends

  "Bill Maher... But I'm Not Wrong". Documentary, February 13, 2010.

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• Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

  Peter Thiel

  Broken, Politician, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use.

  Gary Snyder

  Running, Writing, People

  Gary Snyder, William Scott McLean (1980). “The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Team, Wrestling

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• I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.

  Paula White

  Believe, Bridges, Purpose

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Building Code changes to mid-rise wood construction will give builders and the public even safer, more flexible building options. Our made-in-Ontario model for mid-rise wood provides the highest requirements for fire safety in Canada.

  Ted McMeekin

  Fire, Safety, Giving

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• It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

  Hosea Ballou

  Book, Names, Ancestry

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• Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Arches, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

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• If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

  Hammurabi

  Fall, House, Doe

  Hammurabi (1996). “The Code of Hammurabi”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life.

  Tommy Chong

  Optimistic, Eye, Looks

  The Beyond Chronic Interview, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.

  Pope John Paul II

  Giving, Faithful, Enemy

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• No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dream, Children, War

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.110, Orb Books

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• The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Fancy, Doctrine

  Thomas Jefferson, Allen Jayne (1984). “The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology”

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• Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Fall, Two, Boredom

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• Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Cutting, Men, Order

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.24, Lulu Press, Inc

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• [T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Character, Men, Hands

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• I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!

  Edward Leedskalnin

  Block, Pyramids, Secret

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