Quotes About Reconstruction

Tão pouco tempo? Sim, tão pouco tempo, dez minutos. Os meus ciúmes eram intensos, mas curtos; com pouco derrubaria tudo, mas com o mesmo pouco ou menos reconstruiria o céu, a terra e as estrelas.

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

Sometimes it seemed as if the past was a painting that she had dipped in water, allowing the colours to run and drip, merge and fade so that an entirely altered landscape remained.

I think of us humans as a family of amnesia victims who kept making up stories about our past until we found a means to reconstruct it—the sciences.

Perhaps sometimes we just can't do this; it means being prepared to be undone, and we just don't know if we are ready to put ourselves back together again

It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

The thing about Wes, Delia said to me, unwrapping another package of turkey, is that he thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.

He thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.

information available from the retina and other sensory organs is not sufficient to reconstruct the world. Size, distance, and other properties need to be inferred from uncertain cues, which in turn have to be learned by experience. Based on this experience, the brain draws unconscious inferences about what a sensation means. In other words, perception is a kind of bet about what's really out there.

Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

This is my working definition of history: History is the past reconstructed interactively by the present through argued evidence in public discourse. There are times we can get only alternative perspectives on the same event. (There are always alternative perspectives, even when we do not hear them.) But history as argued public reconstruction is necessary to reconstruct our past in order to project our future.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

Once broken, despite fixing does not stay the original.

The USA has wasted more than a billion hundred dollars on bombing innocent people to kill a few terrorists. If I were the president of the USA; I would have showered dollars on the people to eliminate a handful of mastermind terrorists rather than bombing and giving money to bastards who created such monsters. As a result, the world was greener, and people were not hungry even America was ten times rebuilt.

Ah, compañeros, otra cosa quiero decirles: aquí uno se desespera de tanto papeleo, de tanto oficio, de tanto que se tienen que levantar actas burocráticas. Papel y papel. Mire ahora: ¡ya todos los papeles volaron por los aires! El terremoto todo lo alevantó. (Alonso Mixteco)

A New Blueprint: Time to Renovate the Architecture of Our Lives

that where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

I can't imagine how much time it took Matt Bucy to cut up 'The Wizard of Oz' and reassemble every word of dialog into alphabetical order. The resulting movie is called 'Of Oz the Wizard.'

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.