Quotes About Construction

Sims revolutionized American gunnery in the early years of the century, was Mahan's leading contestant in the Dreadnought controversy, and commanded the United States Naval Forces in European waters in the First World War. Sims's reasoned, sagacious, and totally crushing attack on the Mahan school decided American battleship construction policy in the vital years leading to 1912. Sims made America a major maritime power.

Britain's second batch of three battle cruisers (still called armoured cruisers) was laid down from February, 1909, to June, 1910. They were as disappointing and conservative as the Colossus and Orion classes of battleship, and can be regarded as the worst ships built for the Royal Navy during the Fisher era.

Heinrich Himmler declared: 'Whether 10,000 Russian women collapse with exhaustion in the construction of an anti-tank ditch for Germany only interests me insofar as the ditch gets dug for Germany.

I had the feeling of being in a construction elevator suspended in the skeleton of an unfinished building and between two concrete walls that were shedding tears like bird droppings.

It is ironic that while environmental activists are busy reifying a notion of nature based on purity, with all its problematic implications, the enterprise of bioengineering is making it crystal clear that the nature-culture dualism is a construction, a point that feminists and other social critics have been trying to get across for some time.

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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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.

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.