Construction Quotes - Page 9

• Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.

  Kema Chikwe

  Good Luck, Dedication, Mind Blowing

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Construction Sites

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget.

  Jeffrey Nielsen

  Commitment, Cities, Construction Industry

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• We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

  Manuel De Landa

  World, Mixtures, Social

  Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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• Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

  Peter Singer

  Tasks, Saws, Should

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.100, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.

  Michel Gondry

  Kids, Stories, Done

  "Michel Gondry on His Animated Noam Chomsky Doc and the Money It Takes to Dream Big". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2013.

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• And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden construction, which creates the tranquil pond and gives the mallards somewhere to paddle, and the pair of swans a place to conceal their young

  Billy Collins

  Swans, Giving, Ponds

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• Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

  Mark Doty

  Rain, Play, Fog

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• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Mean, Science, Special

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• I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Real, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There are two styles of walls "opus reticulatum," now used by everybody and the ancient style called "opus incertum." Of these, the reticulatum looks better, but its construction makes it likely to crack. On the other hand, in the opus incertum, the rubble lying in courses and imbricated, makes a wall which though not beautiful, is stronger.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Beautiful, Wall, Lying

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter VIII: "Methods of Building Walls", Sec. 1,

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• General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Real, Lying, Names

  "General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science". Management Science, Volume 2. No. 3, pp. 197-208, www.panarchy.org. April 1956.

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• I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Jail, Age

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• So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"

  Len Wiseman

  Stars, War, Drawing

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview With Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

  John Moody

  Ohio, Rivers, Water

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

  Robert Hughes

  America, Race, Class

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• The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.

  John Moody

  Relationship, Country, Expansion

  John Moody (1919). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

  Donna Tartt

  Diversity, Healthy, Growing

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States.

  Vicente Fox

  Wall, Security Systems, Violation Of Human Rights

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all his heart, does not suffer spiritual ruins - but he will also not have his own self-based constructions. Instead, he takes shelter in the shadow of the natural constructions, like rabbits under boulders. But one who has a human soul cannot take shelter in anything other than constructions that he builds with his own spiritual toil.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Spiritual, Heart, Light

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• It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

  Walter Kirn

  Self, Names, Wiping Out

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• These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Roots, Evil

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• I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.

  Ben Lerner

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man" by William Hermanns, (p. 138), 1983.

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• The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn't do it. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Night, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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