Building Quotes - Page 24

• Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Husband

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.66, Destiny Image Publishers

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• A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.

  Art Linkletter

  Time, War, Failure

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• Marital faithfulness involves more than just sexual fidelity. Being faithful to your wife also means defending her and affirming her beauty, intelligence, and integrity at all times, particularly before other people. Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. Marital fidelity means that your spouse’s health, happiness, security, and welfare take a higher place in your life than anything else except your own relationship with the Lord.

  Myles Munroe

  Husband, Integrity, Mean

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.66, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

  David Adjaye

  Thinking, Makeup, Space

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• Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

  David Adjaye

  Important, Surroundings, Wanted

  "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

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• I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving, Home, Careers

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• Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.

  Dorothy Draper

  Giving, House, Details

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• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Men, Squares, Giving

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• I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

  Willie Wilson

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

  Silas House

  New York, Real, People

  Silas House, Neela Vaswani (2012). “Same Sun Here”, p.7, Candlewick Press

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Air

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• When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

  Florence Henderson

  New York, School, Years

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• It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Loss, Sharks, Lakes

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.

  Joshua Foer

  Art, Memories, Creativity

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• With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

  Alain Robert

  Rocks, Feelings, Elements

  Interview with Ard Arvin, www.buildering.net. June 4, 2006.

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• When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.

  Alain Robert

  Wells, Climbs

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• Building trust is a process. Trust results from consistent and predictable interaction over time.

  Barbara M. White

  Trust, Process, Results

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• Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

  Henry Wotton

  Hate, Hats, Three

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• Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

  Peter Seymour

  Love, Heart, Bridges

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• We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

  Helmut Jahn

  Distance, Unique, Creating

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• After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

  Lawrence Klein

  Country, Japan, East

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• The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

  Janet Reno

  Weed, Party, Marijuana

  "Exit Interview: Janet Reno". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. January 17, 2001.

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• The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

  Christopher Alexander

  Believe, Swag, Feelings

  Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure (2004). “The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe”

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• Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  House Of Cards, Interesting, Leaving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

  Joey Dunlop

  Gun, Night, Two

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