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Quotes About Building

Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.
~ Edmund Burke
The convent was a gray stone building with hundreds of small square curtainless windows, like so many eyes spying out on the wet sinful town.
~ Edna O'Brien
Because I had hankered to go back to America, my husband-to-be agreed that we could go there for a year, while the building work was being done.
~ Edna O'Brien
the two men left the building with a sense of achievement, counterbalanced by desire.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth) my love is building a magic, a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He'll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless
~ ee cummings
What the youth needs to be told is that a ship is a-building in his own mental dry dock, a ship with freedom of the seas.
~ Aldo Leopold
Luther's fire caught because fuel had been quietly building up for some time. The principal fuel was desire for reform of the church.
~ Alec Ryrie
Political bargaining and political entrepreneurship can be seen naked, stripped of the flattering wardrobe of democracy, rule of law and state building.
~ Alex de Waal
Skalleberg also has a revolutionary formula for building a company culture in the postmodern era: "Confidence is the start of it, joy is a part of it, love is the heart of it.
~ Alex Pattakos
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.
~ Rob Lowe
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
~ Joel Hodgson
Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.
~ Cornelia Parker
I'm from the building where the wave was invented. Downstairs, under me. Ask Bigavel. Y'all call him Bigavel, Max B. I know him as Charlie Rambo. I'm from the building where the wave was invented, and it was invented after I was born.
~ Cam'ron
In the building of a basic wardrobe, we cannot go wrong if we strive for simplicity and perfect fitting.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.
~ Claire Denis
I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.
~ Elizabeth Diller
My first large-scale community development opportunity was the formation of the Mission Viejo Co. - a partnership with the O'Neill Family, who owned Rancho Mission Viejo. As the young president of the company, I had the responsibility for master planning, master building and implementing the new community's development plans.
~ Donald Bren
The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
~ Lynn Good
Lots of us have been plugging away, building a platform to talk about libertarian communism and post-scarcity economics.
~ Ash Sarkar
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
~ Azim Premji
It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards all the way up. We didn't have to put development just cheek to jowl all the way up to Boulder. There's enough room in Colorado! But we did.
~ Richard Lamm
Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.
~ Chuka Umunna
There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That's what executives want.
~ John Caudwell