Built Quotes - Page 5

• Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

  Napoleon Hill

  Nature, Goal, House

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.101, Penguin

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• Usually a championship team is built on a strong defense. That is something you can bring to every game. A great attack is always going to be inconsistent - at least on the scoreboard - that's the nature of the game.

  Anson Dorrance

  Motivational, Sports, Strong

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• ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Sports, Adventure, Destiny

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• Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Children, Work

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• When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

  Edith Hamilton

  Strong, Men, Advice

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

  Cesar Chavez

  Commitment, Legacy, World

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• Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

  Tertullian

  Temples, Christian Women, Sewers

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• The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

  Anatole France

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Museums

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• At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

  Gerard Arpey

  Travel, Three, Century

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• We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

  John Grierson

  Travel, Adventure, States

  John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.193, Univ of California Press

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• Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Bulldogs, Body

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• The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Hurt

  Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate

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• The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

  Jules Verne

  Science, Stuff, Architect

  Jules Verne (1998). “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Men, Noses

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• I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

  Eric Cantona

  Memories, Proud, Be Proud

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2003.

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• The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Teaching, Simple

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• The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

  Thomas Reid

  Science, Law, House

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.527, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

  Scott McNealy

  Technology, Talking, Would Be

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Engineering, Iron, Paris

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Wall, Knowledge, Science

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Science, Dna

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• Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, House, Stones

  "Science and Hypothesis". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter IX: "Hypotheses in Physics", 1913.

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• Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Apology, Simple

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