Quotes About Construction

Il postmoderno ritiene che basti sostenere che tutto è socialmente costruito per immunizzarsi dall'attrito del reale.

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term

I am a builder Sometimes I have built well, but often I have built without researching the ground upon which I put my building I raised a beautiful house and I lived in it for a year Then it slowly drifted away with the tides for I had laid the foundation upon shifting sand

I am a builder Sometimes I have built well, but often I have built without researching the ground Upon which I put my building

I did remember. Mr. Rector and Mr. Endicott had basically taken a beautiful island paradise and bulldozed it into an ugly subdivision, complete with tennis courts and a tiki bar.

houses. I remember the first time I ever climbed a Roman staircase, and how odd it felt, and I knew that in times gone by men must have taken such things for granted. Now the world was dung and straw and damp-ridden wood. We had stone masons, of course, but it was quicker to build from wood, and the wood rotted, but no one seemed to care. The whole

for if once you have become filled with hate you will not easily derive from construction the pleasure which another man would derive from it.

Which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

A map does not just replicate the shape of a territory; rather, it actively inflects and works over that territory.7 Films and music videos, like the ones I discuss here, are best regarded as affective maps, which do not just passively trace or represent, but actively construct and perform, the social relations, flows, and feelings that they are ostensibly "about." In

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

I'm chronically unemployed. Never had a job my whole life. None of my family did. I take that back. Once my daddy was hired on a construction crew for two weeks and two days. He said it was way more work than it paid. He maintained it was just one more way to take advantage of the poor.

Bakiginin. En carelio, idioma que se habla desde el golfo de Finlandia hasta el mar Blanco, la tristeza del constructor de paredes. El contraste entre la necesidad de alejar a todo el mundo de tu vida, y la imposibilidad de hacerlo.

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

If there is something right in Beauvoir's claim that one is born, but rather becomes a woman, it follows that woman itself is a term in process, a becoming, a constructing that cannot rightfully be said to originate or to end. As an ongoing discursive practice, it is open to intervention and resignification.