Built Quotes
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The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.
Joseph Stalin
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What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Amos built a wigwam in the clubhouse because he didn't want the reporters talking to him. He didn't like something that was written in the paper. I looked in there and saw an Indian blanket. He was sitting on it like a chief.
Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
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We're capitalizing on the position of strength we've built, ... By aligning our business across our three anchors...we will be in a strong position to exploit our multiple sales channels and get even closer to the customer.
J. M. Roberts
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A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.
David Lubar
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
Joseph Stalin
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.
Haruki Murakami
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“That which at twilight had appeared to be a silvery sea-god's palace, a structure of twisted sea-shapes, was now a temple built by the cunning genies of Fire.”
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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It's an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.
Benjamin Creme
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I once had a gig in Gothenburg and went on the most unbelievable theme park ride, which was a rollercoaster built into a mountain that went through plants and tunnels. It was huge and a thrill to go on.
Limahl
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When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
Catherine Tate
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Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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One thing I always remember: Frustration is built by unmet expectations.
Andrew McCutchen
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You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began.
Alejandra Pizarnik
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The reasons I never set out to do a talk show is they're formulaic. People come out, tell jokes and read questions. But that's not what I do, and we built the show around my skill set.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
David Batstone
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.
Galileo Galilei
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The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
Ezra Cornell
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They even come equipped with a built-in antibiotic called squalamine that helps them resist infections.
Ben Sherwood
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A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.
Albert Einstein