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Quotes About Construction

Some sense of the death toll can be gleaned from the fact that SS spokesmen at the Wannsee conference contended that construction labor on the Eastern Front should become one of the main vehicles for wiping out every living Jew in Europe.
~ Christopher Simpson
Part of the fascination," he said, "is just little boys who never grew up, playing with Erector sets. Engineers just don't lose that, and if you do lose it, you just can't be an engineer anymore.
~ Tracy Kidder
Whether you want to build a mansion to live in, a row of stores to make customers happy, a game that visitors have to learn to beat, your own mystery island or more; you can create just about anything when you
~ Triumph Books
Table: Your basic item-creation station
~ Triumph Books
A avea un duÈ™man e important nu numai pentru a ne defini identitatea, ci È™i pentru a ne procura un obstacol în raport cu care s? ne evalu?m sistemul de valori È™i s? ne ar?t?m, înfruntându-l, propria valoare. De aceea, atunci când duÈ™manul nu exist?, el trebuie construit.
~ Umberto Eco
Tener un enemigo es importante no solo para definir nuestra identidad, sino también para procurarnos un obstáculo con respecto al cual medir nuestro sistema de valores y mostrar, al encararlo, nuestro valor. Por lo tanto, cuando el enemigo no existe, es preciso construirlo.
~ Umberto Eco
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
~ Umberto Eco
Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
~ V.S. Naipaul
around, beyond the trees, were the buildings. There you really did have an idea of the city as something made by man, and not as something that had just grown by itself and was simply there.
~ V.S. Naipaul
It's more about developing a sense of how he looks at the world. Motivation is highly individualistic. But what we all have in common is that we construct our own identities based on what we've learned of the world.
~ Val McDermid
During the thousand years of her history Russia had seen many great things. During the Soviet period the country had seen global military victories, vast construction sites, whole new cities, dams across the Dnieper and the Volga, canals joining different seas. The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.
~ Vasily Grossman
Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder. Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.
~ Vicki Lewis Thompson
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
~ Victor Hugo
Time is the architect, the nation is the builder.
~ Victor Hugo
There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.
~ Victor Hugo
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
~ Victor Hugo
Built in the seventies, I'd guess, back when just about everything was ugly. There
~ Kristin Hannah
hammers falling
~ Kristin Hannah
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
~ Lady Gaga
In the 1830s, designers wanted buildings that looked Gothic, but they had no real understanding of the planning and construction behind it. This dichotomy is evident in Charles Barry's Houses of Parliament: Gothic topdressing on an essentially Classical building. (Passing the Houses of Parliament one day, Augustus Welby Pugin commented: 'All Grecian, sir. Tudor details on a Classic body.
~ Catharine Arnold
As children construct their understandings of God and religion, they are surrounded by symbols for their imaginations to take hold of and to build into their faith images. When children begin to ask questions about the rituals and symbols of the faith, we know their imaginations are grasped by the symbol and that they are working to create a meaning for it.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
building is medicine for free.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It requires no intelligence or education to pick up a submachinegun, point it, and pull the trigger, so terrorism, revolution, and conquest are easier routes to success for opportunistic leaders in backward areas than is the way of peaceful construction.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
The construction of space colonies will follow a similar pattern, so that by the year 2010 or thereabouts there will be many space colonies in existence and many new ones being constructed each year.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill