Quotes and Sayings About Construction
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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.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.
-- Aharon Katzir -
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.
-- Anne Enright -
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
-- Anson Mount -
If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.
-- Anthony Mackie -
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.
-- Assata Shakur -
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
-- B. F. Skinner -
The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.
-- Bill Shorten -
I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.
-- Bob Corker -
Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
-- Brad Pitt -
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
-- Catherine Opie -
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
-- Cesar Pelli -
Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
-- Charles Rangel -
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
-- Claudio Hummes -
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
-- Clifford Geertz -
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
-- David Hilbert -
The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.
-- David M. Raup -
It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
-- Dennis Hastert -
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
-- Donatella Versace -
You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.
-- Doris McCarthy -
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
-- Eartha Kitt -
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
-- Elfriede Jelinek -
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
-- Francis Bacon -
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
-- Fritz Todt -
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.
-- George Ade -
Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
-- George William Curtis -
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
-- Gerrit Smith
