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Quotes About Builders

We are all fine builders of "alibis" and creators of "excuses" in support of our short-comings. We are not seeking facts and truths as they are, but, as we wish them to be. We prefer honeyed words of flattery to those of cold, unbiased truth, wherein lies the weakest spot of the man-animal.
~ Napoleon Hill
We are all fine builders of "alibis" and creators of "excuses" in support of our short-comings. We are not seeking facts and truths as they are, but, as we wish them to be. We prefer honeyed words of flattery to those of cold, unbiased truth, wherein lies the weakest spot of the man-animal. Furthermore, we are up in arms against those who dare to uncover the truth for our benefit.
~ Napoleon Hill
Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.
~ John Boehner
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
~ Arthur Erickson
Farmers were 'unable to develop their landholdings due to many restrictions. We passed the land pooling policy so they can plan to build infrastructure - with the help of private builders too.
~ Manoj Tiwari
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!
~ Sappho
I, the British Empire began as a primarily economic phenomenon, its growth powered by commerce and consumerism. The demand for sugar drew merchants tot he carribean. British were not the first Empire builders. They were IMERIAL IMMITATORS!
~ Niall Ferguson
But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe and so it was with these masons however primitive their works may seem to us.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.
~ Rodney Brooks
Forestry is the work of nation builders.
~ Unknown
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
~ James Gleick
tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
While the builders worked on the cottage, Hugh lived in what used to be the stable but was later converted into a guesthouse, the kind you'd have if you wanted to either discourage guests or contain them in one spot while slowly depressing them to death.
~ David Sedaris
A founder's perspective is unique. Entrepreneurs are builders, and the lens through which I view Starbucks and the marketplace is somewhat different from what it would be if I were a professionally schooled manager.
~ Howard Schultz
1446, that's when the foundations were laid. It took forty years to complete." "Sounds like some builders I know," Rebus said. "Can't you feel it?" Sithing was staring at Rebus. "Right at the core of your cynical heart, can't you feel something ?" "It's just indigestion, thanks for asking." Rebus rubbed his chest.
~ Ian Rankin
Nor did he trouble to disguise his contempt for the Redmans. In his eyes, they were empire builders, in the game for their "own personal purposes, not for what they could offer.
~ Ian W. Toll
We are predators and destroyers but also builders and repairers.
~ Unknown
This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.
~ Ronald Reagan
Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...
~ Noel Gallagher
viem tiež, že stavitelia katedrál nemali na mysli žiadnu tézu, a že nezamýš?ali podnecova? kres?anské cítenie. ale mali vieru, a to sta?ilo.
~ Jacques Maritain
They needed contractors whose reputations were unsullied, builders who were honest and could get the job done as promised. The directors asked five builders to appear before them in Smith's office in the Biltmore Hotel to discuss the job and to make proposals.
~ John Tauranac
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
~ Ron Chernow
Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
~ Elizabeth May
Why is the station so far out of the city limits anyway? Most likely a collusion between the builders of stations and the builders of long roads.
~ Unknown