Quotes About Reconstruction

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

My ideas are recycled.

The Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The Pieces are in flux. Soon, They will SETTLE again. Before They do, let us RE-ORDER this world around us!!!

All the crockery in China had been smashed – flung over the years in all the periodic convulsions for which China was famous. All the blood-stained carpets had been tossed away. All the ancestors' portraits had been destroyed. All the bodies had been buried. It was a country of bare rooms and empty shelves, like this apartment

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

One possible way of couching it is to choose to say that we will take apart your skull very gently and reconstruct a skull for you that will have a highly developed bump of clarity and a slight concave dent where the fear-instinct used to be.

the ideas of ravacious herds of feral domesticated housepets and oversized insects not only taking over the abandoned homes of relocated Americans but actually setting up house and keeping them in model repair and impressive equity

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Po ka?dej wojnie kto? musi posprz?ta?.

After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all.

These fragments of book mean that I work in ruins.

But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because a damaged human spirit seeks to resurrect and reconstruct itself; it also seeks self-consciousness.

Besides, my old opinions—at least, the greater part of them—are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.