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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• 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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• 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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• A house built on greed cannot long endure.

  Edward Abbey

  Long, House, Greed

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• He has built a pedestal for her so tall that she is afraid to be lifted atop it, because to fall would mean certain death. But oh, she would rise far, far beyond fear and be held by arms so strong, and love so pure, that falling would not be an option.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Strong, Fall, Mean

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• A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Choices, Trying, Coats

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• You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Irony, Humans, Knows

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not just for distraction, sustenance, to pass the time, but she has read in a state of primal innocence, reading for enlightenment, for instruction, even. ... She is as much a product of what she has read as of the way in which she has lived; she is like millions of others built by books, for whom books are an essential foodstuff, who could starve without.

  Penelope Lively

  Book, Reading, Support Systems

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• People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. (...) I built all this so I can protect you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Children, Thinking, People

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• Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Heart, Commitment, Compassion

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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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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• But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same business for which I'd sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears? Well, maybe not sweat and tears, but there was blood. Lots of blood. Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

  Darynda Jones

  Giving Up, Sweat, Two

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, World

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Causes, Should

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Flower, Smell, Rose

  "The Naval Treaty" (1893)

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• It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?

  Sara Zarr

  Sorry, Feet, Forgiving

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

  Rachel Simon

  Fighting, World, Fists

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• Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

  Ivo Andric

  Eye, Men, Bridges

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• In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Powerful, Heart, Doe

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• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Tea, Pillars

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