Quotes About Structure

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you've already become part of the system. It's how it works.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

The foundation you blend today affects your life structure tomorrow.

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

I continued to find it much easier to assimilate knowledge within the structured military environment than at college, for at training sites such as Mare Island, outside influences were kept to a minimum.  All I had to do was make my bunk in the morning, show up at the appointed classrooms, and focus on the subject at hand.  Others took care of the daily routine of life while we hit the books.

It is difficult for many to realize that they are actual universes; that their physical bodies are a visible nature through the structure of which countless waves of evolving life are unfolding their latent potentialities.

Nel mondo ha sempre regnato un ordine: sopra quelli che devono stare sopra e sotto quelli che devono stare sotto.

Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect to be told whenever a new piece of evidence may emerge, in the light of which it is quite possible that the whole elaborate structure of our conclusions will have to be changed.

People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but working without any structure is a bit like sailing a boat in the middle of the ocean. All it takes is an unexpected wave and you're dead in the water.

in the early fourth century, 350 feet long and able to accommodate around 3,000 worshippers.

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

technologies come and go. Economic structures evolve and change. Society adjusts. But democratic basics persist in spite of the Tofflers, Gingrich and the chorus of corporate voices. (III - From Corporatism to Democracy)

There is no reason to suppose ahead of time that the principles satisfactory for the basic structure hold for all cases.

Even Navy's got better discipline than this.

The base of the water tower gave every indication of being a solid argument for tetanus shots.

The skin was not skin at all, but bone. Ectoskeleton.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, hut he did not really believe in it. His world did not have death as a member. He, and all around him, was immortal. When real death came it was an outrage, a denial of the immortality he deeply felt, and the one crack in his wall caused the whole structure to crash. I think he had always thought he could argue himself out of death. It was a personal opponent and one he could lick.

A skyscraper is a tall building whose weight is supported by a frame of steel or poured-in-place concrete with steel reinforcements. Unlike the load-bearing walls of a masonry structure, walls do not help support the average skyscraper.