Building Up Quotes - Page 4

• We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Sherrod Brown

  Iraq, People, Support

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• Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Patience, Needs, Muscles

  Eknath Easwaran (2009). “Renewal: A Little Book of Courage and Hope”, p.29, Nilgiri Press

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• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Writing, Sadness

  "Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Religion, Sound

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Kindness, Creativity, Blessing

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.189, Sophia Institute Press

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• Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.

  Michael Moore

  Fall, Europe, Arms

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• My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

  Jimmy Page

  Army, Guitar, Harmony

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• Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

  Lil Wayne

  Inspiration, Past, Tears

  "Letter #01: Gone ’til November..." by Lil Wayne, weezythanxyou.com. April 2, 2010.

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• There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Bell Jar, Minutes

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• "You...you lost your faith?"
  "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing."
  Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk-throughout the weeks-arriving all at once like a sonic boom.
  "I never knew there was a choice".

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Choices, Feelings

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• Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

  Alain de Botton

  Wave, Matchsticks, Protest

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• Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

  Brom

  Song, Garden, Voice

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• Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Facts, Christianity

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

  Jimmy Page

  Army, Thinking, Guitar

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• I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

  Brian May

  Queens, Years, Trying

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• The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Goes On, Creation

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• You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State . The atmosphere reminded me of a word it was ’democracy.’

  Anna Louise Strong

  Jobs, Feelings, Atmosphere

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Keys

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• You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Building, Stadiums, Knows

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Victory

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• If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.

  Jane McGonigal

  Regret, Book, Playing Games

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• That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Air, Sound, Able

  "‘Fearless Felix’ Falls 24 Miles To Earth" by Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. October 14, 2012.

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• When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Peace, Healing, Thinking

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• Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

  John Elder Robison

  Weakness, World, Disabled

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• I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

  David Brainerd

  Fire, Glowing, Flames

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