Construction Quotations

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Demolition is a part of construction.

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context...

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

Success is a project that's always under construction.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory.

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction that works from back to front.

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

I like anybody who does any kind of construction.

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Whereas an elephant that was scared to death that diesel powered equipment, equipment that ran on a gas engine, was just fine. Because somebody had attacked it with construction equipment.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

The movie [Aquarius] is about love, ultimately, and it was made with love. There were a lot of parents in the crew, and they were the best crew I had ever worked with. Everybody knew the construction of each scene, and were completely invested in every shooting day.

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

End of Construction - Thank you for your patience.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

Constructiveness is the human way.

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.