Built Quotes - Page 15

• 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

  Foundation, May, Matter

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• Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Heart, Snow

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.430, Courier Corporation

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• Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Justice, Foundation, Catholicism

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• In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.

  Howard Schultz

  Motivational, Powerful, Heart

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.

  Bill McKibben

  Mistake, Nice, Forever

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• It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Believe, Special

  Steven Weinberg (1977). “The first three minutes: a modern view of the origin of the universe”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

  Stevie Nicks

  Life, Children, Ocean

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• The future is built on the flow of new ideas.

  Paul Meyer

  Ideas, Innovation, Flow

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• Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Wisdom, Doubt, Religion

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• But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Lying, Law

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.760, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Men, Sky

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, Order, Law

  Congressional Record, vol. 107, p. 11703., June 29, 1961.

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• They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Power, Government, Hands

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.16, Best Books on

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• I remember, I remember
  The roses, red and white,
  The violets, and the lily-cups,
  Those flowers made of light!
  The lilacs, where the robin built,
  And where my brother set
  The laburmum on his birthday,-
  The tree is living yet.

  Thomas Hood

  Birthday, Brother, Flower

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

  Bobby Sherman

  Love, Birthday, Real

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• Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Two, People, Funny Marriage

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• Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Nature, Passion, May

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.

  Scott McClanahan

  Nice, Book, Army

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• And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

  Robin Wasserman

  Powerful, War, Greatness

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.302, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheesesteak and fries.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.

  Gerard Butler

  Tests, Enough, Screens

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• We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We’re aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

  Marc Maron

  Art, Struggle, Animal

  Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal”, p.18, Spiegel & Grau

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• The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Character, Ideas, Firsts

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• If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

  Van Jones

  Mistake, Saint, Social Transformation

  "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.

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• I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

  Rose McGowan

  Careers, I Realized

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Nov 02, 2011

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