Top 1200 Building Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's.

I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most, may be those parts of Africa around Somalia that are enduring a climate-caused and really record-breaking drought. It may be the greatest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. And of course, where humanitarian crises happen, so do political instability. This is the world that we're building and building fast. And it's the world that people are trying somehow to slow down. Trying very hard to bring down this fossil fuel machine before it does any more damage.

I just like building stuff.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, from the foundation to the top-stone. He is a new man, a new creature; all things are become new. Conversion is a deep work, a heart work. It makes a new man in a new world. It extends to the whole man, to the mind, to the members, to the motions of the whole life.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

I'm always big on building a brotherhood.

I'm building an anarchistic society from the ground up.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

Networking is an essential part of building wealth.

I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

My heart is really in building coalitions.

I was happy to have an attraction in our building that we didn't have to pay for.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.

[I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man.

I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7-building 7, which collapsed in on itself-it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade [Center] 1 and 2 got hit by planes-7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.

We should be building more nuclear today.

How is your life limited by your fear? What are you not doing that you'd really like to do? When we use fear to our advantage by tackling those things that evoke a sense of excitement and trepidation, fear becomes and ally. Each experience provides a challenge and an opportunity to expand your comfort zone. The way to create an extraordinary life is to make the challenge of fear work for you by building your courage muscles.

Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

Private companies should be building businesses.

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.

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The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.

You have to keep building. Movements have to move forward.

I believe in building great companies.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

Stop sketching and start building.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

Every building must have... its own soul.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

When does a building actually become a built?

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

It’s the opening of Manderlay in Cannes, and I’m sitting next to this guy who’s writing for a tiny fictitious French paper called ‘On the Sunny Side,’ and he’s writing a review on the film, and he’s obviously bored. Then he tells me about all the cars he owns, and how rich he is, and all these things... So, at a certain point, he says, "So what do you do?" Then I take out this very strange hammer we have in the Danish building business, and I say, "I kill." And then I kill him. It is as stupid as it sounds.

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