Building Quotes - Page 40

• At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  New York, Reflection, Night

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• All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

  Robert Kennedy

  World Government, Order, Nwo

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• Secrecy is for losers. . . . It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  War, Government, Support

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• When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Iran, President

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• It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Past, Men

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• When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!

  Upton Sinclair

  Believe, Media, Names

  Upton Sinclair (1928). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.246, University of Illinois Press

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• In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

  Alain Robert

  Hiking, Shapes, Facts

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• St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Mountain, Literature, Enormous

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.6, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

  John Thorn

  Father, Son, Years

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• I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

  Joe Lieberman

  Leadership, Consensus Building, Democracy

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• We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

  Dick York

  Money, People, Pay

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• The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Lunch, Religion, Bars

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• The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

  Stephen Wolfram

  Science, Years, Mathematical Equations

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• When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

  Greg Louganis

  Sports, Growing Up, Self Esteem

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• I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Technology, Thinking

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• I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Work, Painter, Incorporating

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• When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Sight, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.253

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• For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Country, Stars, Space

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• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, College, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

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• We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

  Mao Zedong

  World, Study, Destroying

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.305, China Books

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• You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

  Andrew Mason

  Success, Art, Vision

  "7 Insanely Rich Founders Share Their Best Business Advice" by Larry Kim, www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2014.

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

  John Ortberg

  Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

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• I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

  Dick Wolf

  Walking Away, People, Car

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• Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Preparation, Fields

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