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Quotes About Building

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.
~ George Porter
As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.
~ Ron Paul
I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.
~ Mordechai Vanunu
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.
~ Eric Ries
For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.
~ I. M. Pei
Fondare biblioteche è un pò come costruire ancora granai pubblici: ammassare riserve contro l'inverno dello spirito che da molti indizi, mio malgrado, vedo venire.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
To be part of the company who help bring about a kingdom church revolution, our hearts must not only align with the priorities in God's heart; we must become those who build what God is building.
~ Mark Perry
Okay, now you know the players that belong in your allocation buckets, and you know the key to building a winning team: diversify, diversify, diversify!
~ Anthony Robbins
The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Mammoths, building a signal to Mars, on the North American ice cap.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I'm changing the name. It's going to be called the Cameron Palace.' Lara felt a thrill just saying the words. It was almost a sexual feeling. Her name was going to be on a building for all the world to see.
~ Sidney Sheldon
He had spent his whole life listening to stories from the past and now he had his own, and it was slowly building chapter by chapter.
~ Silas House
Existence is not an end in itself but merely the framework upon which all good, both real and imagined, may be built.
~ Simone Weil
Faithfulness is far more significant than fame when Jesus is building His church.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Resilience is not just a complimentary individual quality, but something that is built. And you build it through a number of things in your life, part of it being social fabric.
~ James Redford
Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
~ John Piper
Deuteronomy 30; Matthew 24). Mike Evans has written: "The fig tree has always been a symbol of the nation of Israel. The leaves of the fig tree are common ornaments on government buildings in Israel." (The Return, Nelson, 1986).
~ John Price
The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.
~ John Saul
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
~ John Strachan
By the time Michelangelo arrived in Rome, the Belvedere hill was inclined in a massive building site that would eventually yield gardens, courtyards, porticos, and an open-air sculpture loggia fit for a Christian emperor.
~ John T. Spike
As a building stone, marble was first used extensively by Pericles in the construction of the Parthenon in Athens in about 438 B.C.
~ John T. Spike
In September 1929, the Empire State Building Corporation rented space for its executive offices at 200 Madison Avenue. The building, on the west side of Madison
~ John Tauranac
there was hardly any economic justification for going much higher than the originally planned fifty-five or sixty-five stories on the Empire State site. And Shreve knew that. Raskob, however, wanted something taller still. A proposed building of seventy, even eighty stories would make news and bring his project publicity
~ John Tauranac