Build Quotes - page 4

Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. (Gottlob Frege)
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. View quote
Ansel Adams
Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
We must build a kind of United States of Europe. View quote
Winston Churchill
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. View quote
Franz Kafka
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. View quote
Greta Thunberg
All things... appear to be made up and produced by the coming together of these elements, so that they have been distributed by nature among an infinite number of kinds of things. Hence I believed it right to treat of the diversity and practical peculiarities of these things as well as of the qualities which they exhibit in buildings, so that persons who are intending to build may understand them and so make no mistake, but may gather materials which are suitable to use in their buildings. View quote
Vitruvius
Taking courage and looking forward from the standpoint of higher ideas born of the multiplication of the arts, they gave up huts and began to build houses with foundations, having brick or stone walls, and roofs of timber and tiles; next, observation and application led them from fluctuating and indefinite conceptions to definite rules of symmetry. Perceiving that nature had been lavish in the bestowal of timber and bountiful in stores of building material, they... embellished them with luxuries. View quote
Vitruvius
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. View quote
Richard Rogers
I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand. (Tamara Mellon)
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? View quote
Anthony Doerr
I like to build things. I like to do things. View quote
Walter Chrysler
We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice. View quote
F. W. de Klerk
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. View quote
Arthur Henderson
You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel. View quote
Debby Ryan
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world? View quote
Ismail Kadaré
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. (Harold Geneen)
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. View quote
Bo Bennett
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. View quote
Katherine Dunham
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people. View quote
Andrew Shue
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. View quote
Ann Macbeth