Construction Quotes - Page 2

• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Destruction, States

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  Edmund Burke

  People, Leader, Auctions

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.353

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• Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

  Jane D. Hull

  School, Arizona, Innovative

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• On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

  Robert Delaunay

  Artist, Hands, Color

  "Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics". Book by Herschel Browning Chipp, p. 318, 1968.

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• When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Song, Umpires, Play

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• So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

  Amy Poehler

  Construction Workers, People, Giving

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• Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

  Francis Parkman

  Two Sides, House, Leaving

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.352, Library of America

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• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles Rangel

  Growing, Today, Hospitality

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• I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

  Gerrit Smith

  Canals, New Roads, Rail

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• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  James Larkin

  Fighting, Men, Race

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• It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

  Dennis Hastert

  Jobs, Billions

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• We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Understanding, Principles

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Eugenics, Rocks

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.109, Elsevier

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• Constructiveness is the human way.

  Dalai Lama

  Way, Humans

  "Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection". Book by 14th Dalai Lama, 2000.

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• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Construction Industry, Growth

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• The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Jobs, Cities, Mexico

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• Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

  Hun Sen

  Rights, Effort, Waiting

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Important, President, Signatures

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• Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Mean, Goal, Hierarchy

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• But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

  Marc Bloch

  History, Understanding, Cabinets

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, Manchester University Press

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• Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Design, Example, Development

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, sunnyday.mit.edu. April 1971.

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• I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Sound, Looks

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Ideas, Machines, Aliens

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• NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

  Joanna Lumley

  Space, Skins, Study

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• Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

  Paul Cezanne

  Fall, Artist, Thoughtful

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