Built Quotes

• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Literature, World

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 66, 1790.

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• Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

  Joseph Bruchac

  Fate, Events, Shapes

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• Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  U Thant

  Love, Life, Peace

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

  John Green

  World, Humans

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.174, Penguin

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• It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Memories, Mindfulness, Homecoming

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• I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

  Richard Gere

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• Self esteem is built from the inside out and that is my inspiring message to all people.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Self Esteem, People, Messages

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Wreckage, World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche”, p.323, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sadness, Soul, Bees

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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• Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

  Gayle Forman

  Purpose, Persons, Ifs

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.168, Penguin

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• I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Heart, Mirrors

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• Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Years, Guarantees, Life Experience

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• Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

  Maya Banks

  Crush, Obsessive, Consuming

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• Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

  Jules Verne

  Fall, Errors, Lad

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Journey to the Interior of the Earth”, p.177, Jules Verne

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• ..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fall, Heart, Wind

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, School, Ignorance

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• The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Wall, Heart, Perfect

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• Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

  Gayle Forman

  Trying, Different, Way

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• It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

  Dan Wells

  Winning, Order, Play

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• Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Country, Cities, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, June, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, House, Boards

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