Construction Quotes - Page 18

• The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Bridges, Wings

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• Let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Jobs, Hands, Names

  Terry McAuliffe (2007). “What A Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Reflection, Arrows, Glasses

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• The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

  David M. Raup

  Circularity, Range, Found

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• When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

  Aberjhani

  Voting, Politics, Election

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• To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Islamic, Arabia, Would Be

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• My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive.

  Dana Schutz

  Portraits, Events, Alive

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• Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Block, Surveillance Cameras

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• Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or gardeners; or in the corporate interest of cheap labor in the hospitality industries, agriculture, and construction; or in the political sense of new liberal constituents; or in the tribal sense of expanding the so-called La Raza base. But the vast majority of Americans accept that when federal law is ignored, chaos ensues.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Law, Agriculture, Political

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• It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Reality, Tools

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• The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

  Jill Shalvis

  Easy, Routes, Easy Road

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• If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
  road construction, you may live in Canada

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Winter, May, Canada

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• It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

  Neil Gaiman

  Perfectly Normal, Spheres, Cylinders

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• For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

  Roberto Bolano

  Reading, Labyrinth, Pleasure

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• My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

  Ty Pennington

  Art, Jobs, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it.

  Tom Sachs

  Fall, Ideas, Done

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• Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophical, Men, Organization

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• The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

  Janne Teller

  Europe, Tradition, Habit

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• healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Thinking, Small Acts

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

  Le Corbusier

  Moving, Together, Purpose

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Be heroes in an army of construction.

  Helen Keller

  Hero, Army

  Helen Keller's Speech at Carnegie Hall, New York City, under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party and the Labor Forum, January 5, 1916.

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• Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

  Saul Bellow

  Life, Clouds, Light

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• I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP OF ONE'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE FABRIC OF THE FILM, THEN THE FILM WILL HAVE THE POWER TO AFFECT THOSE WHO SEE IT.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Memories, Emotional

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• The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Progressive, Road To Success

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2016

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