Built Quotes

• The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

  

  Nicole McKay
  • House
  • Bible
  • Built

• We need to find a way to get the (D.C. Council) to honor the commitment it made to get a stadium built. I am guardedly optimistic that we can find a way to get it done.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Commitment
  • Optimistic
  • Built

• Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Trust
  • Built

• I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

  

  Michael Birch
  • Built
  • Backgrounds
  • Website

• No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Rule
  • Created
  • Filibuster

• Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Christianity
  • Capitalism

• Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Circumstances
  • Alternatives
  • Flexibility

• No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Built

• Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world's largest emotion data repository.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Emotion
  • Fact
  • Data

• The reasonableness of others and my own desire for tranquility got on my nerves. The breath built up in my throat, ready to vibrate with words of rage. I felt the need to quarrel, and in fact I quarreled first with our male friends, then with their wives or girlfriends, and finally I went on to clash with anyone, male or female, who tried to help me accept what was happening to my life.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Friends
  • Desire
  • Accept

• 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.
  • People
  • Reason
  • Shows

• What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Traitor
  • Roman Power
  • Overthrew

• Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Running
  • Company
  • Projects

• There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Giving
  • Built
  • Add

• I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Houses

• The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Movement
  • Built
  • Startup

• My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Idea
  • Built
  • Artistic

• Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Relationship
  • Quality
  • Principles

• Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Happy
  • Homes
  • Immorality

• My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • History
  • Evidence
  • Role

• I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Film
  • Weight
  • Boxer

• I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Character
  • History
  • Differences

• A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Strong
  • Peace
  • Enjoy

• Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Understand
  • Memory
  • Wings

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