Built Quotes

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Hopper)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. View quote
Steve Jobs
Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion. View quote
William Blake
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. View quote
Harry S. Truman
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. View quote
U Thant
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. View quote
William Cowper
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. (Ernest Hemingway)
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. View quote
Leon Uris
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. View quote
Edward Lear
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference. View quote
Ian Kershaw
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. View quote
Larry Niven
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. View quote
Francis Bacon
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 perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. View quote
Rumi
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Science is built up of 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 Poincaré)
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. View quote
Voltaire
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Rome was not built in one day. View quote
John Heywood
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