Quotes About Reconstruction

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.

Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life? When they have all fallen into dust and rubble?

La vida es una constante reescritura del ayer. Una deconstrucción de la niñez.

They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

The Spanish Stairs were destroyed in the fission wars of the late twentieth century. They were rebuilt and destroyed again in the war of the World Restoration in the twenty-first century.

You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.

Sometimes,' he murmured, 'the only way to improve something is to destroy it, so it can be rebuilt better. Sometimes, to change the world, we must first burn it down.

Next, I spent three hours a day, morning, noon, and evening, in self-hypnosis and meditation. I visualized, with the joy of being totally healed, that my spine was fully repaired. I mentally reconstructed my spine, building each segment. I stared at hundreds of pictures of spines to help me perfect my mental imagery. My focused thoughts would help direct the greater intelligence already at work to heal me. When

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

There always appears, on the ruins of tyranny, a man taller than the others, a man that everyone sees, that everyone listens to and this one is the master of rubble.

It is an evanescent reference state, so continuously and consistently reconstructed that the owner never knows it is being remade unless something goes wrong with the remaking.

By age seventeen he'd convinced himself that every human he saw was a parasite, captive to the dictates of consumption. But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to be carrying at the time. Conrad is something of a scientific miracle. There are more than thirty metal pins in his body. He has a metal plate in his skull. There are metal wires in his jaw and in most of his major joints." "He must set off a lot of airport alarms," Alex muttered.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Memoria nu recreeaz? niciodat? realitatea. Memoria doar reconstituie. ?i orice reconstituire modific? originalul, devenind ea îns??i un cadru de referin?? extern, în mod inevitabil deficitar.

Just one violation may cost you not only money but a lot of time to rebuild what you had in the past.

My powers of reasoning are incredibly limited; to sense the development in the results, that I can do, but to ascend from the development of the results or step by step to reconstruction it from the results, that is not given to me. It is though as I were falling down upon these things, and caught sight of them only in the confusion of my fall.

La oposición de izquierda... creyó necesario reconstruir la anatomía nacional, volver al nacionalismo revolucionario original (cardenista e incluso zapatista) y desarrolló una actitud populista de desconfianza ante la democracia electoral.

In contemporary times we not only reconstruct the past but we also use it to give legitimacy to the way in which we order our own society.

My world has tumbled into pieces. I want to reconstruct it