Built Quotes - Page 25

• The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.

  Ian Kershaw

  Hate, Indifference, Auschwitz

  Ian Kershaw (2002). “Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933-1945”, p.277, Oxford University Press

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• The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

  Watchman Nee

  Spirit, Builder, Dwellers

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.339, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Brain, Different

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Success can be built on a strong relationship between a lobbyist and a single, powerful lawmaker.

  Josh Marshall

  Strong, Powerful, Lobbyists

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• The guys have a lot of good cars built up. We're going to do some more testing before we go back to Las Vegas and try to win at Vegas again. We need to get off to a quick start.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Winning, Vegas

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• I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

  James Broughton

  Eight, Magic, Toys

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• I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  House, Soul, Ease

  'The Palace of Art' (1832) st. 1

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• The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Humor, Men

  'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'

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• how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors. I tell you, it's a whole different sex! Joe: What are you afraid of? Nobody's asking you to have a baby.

  Jack Lemmon

  Baby, Sex, Spring

  "Fictional character: Jerry". "Some Like It Hot", 1959.

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• Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

  Elton Gallegly

  Rights, Law, People

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• A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.

  Boris Gelfand

  Lying, Home, Player

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• Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Important, Quality

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, p.272, Thomas Nelson

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• This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Attention, Firsts

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• I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

  Bill Wyman

  Girl, Baby, House

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• We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

  Lou Gerstner

  Business, Company, Customers

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• Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Promise

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• America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Jesus, Selfish

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• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Art, Names, Theatre

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• Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

  Terry Pratchett

  Art, Pain, Taken

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.328, Random House

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• An interesting difference between new and experienced stage managers is that the new stage manager thinks of running the show as the most difficult and most demanding part of the job, whereas the experienced stage manager thinks of it as the most relaxing part. Perhaps the reason is that experienced stage managers have built up work habits that make then so thoroughly prepared for the production phase that they [can] sit back during performances to watch that preparation pay off.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on railroad cars and transport them hundreds, even thousands, of miles to concentration camps. Camps built specifically to house them, where they would be fed, clothed, even tattooed so they could be inventoried...just to kill them.

  Edgar Steele

  War, Fighting, Two

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• We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

  Melissa Bean

  Stress, Community, Proud

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Reading, Reform, Three

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• I didn't want anyone getting close to me. I pushed people away. Built a wall around my heart to keep them out. I let one person take down the bricks, and I suppose it was a good idea, but, sometimes, he hurts me too. And it hurts so much worse then any other hurt I've felt because he is one of the very few that matter anymore.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Hurt, Wall, Heart

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• It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

  Mike Mason

  Marriage, Beautiful, Taken

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