Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

The success [of Mary Kay Inc.] is much, much deeper than just dollars and cents and buildings and assets. The real success of our Company is measured to me in the lives that have been touched and given hope.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

The task of building a great university is never simple.

The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But they were associated with all this [Victorian] stuffiness.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

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

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.

Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

We are spending so much time in studios, and in chairs listening to somebody at a lectern, and if we really understood what Americans were concerned about and what resentments were building, we would not have been as shocked by Donald Trump's success.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has been to expand it, instead of backtracking or trying to destroy what we have done.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

We didn't really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.