Built Quotes - page 9

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. (Charles Cooley)
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs. View quote
Betty White
I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running. View quote
David Walliams
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built. View quote
Gerard Butler
What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found? View quote
John Henry Tilden
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. View quote
George Michael
There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background. View quote
Amy Chua
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. View quote
Lionel Shriver
I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person. View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs. (Adele)
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. View quote
Baz Luhrmann
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the "pluralistic," displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. View quote
Wendell Berry
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us. View quote
James Earl Jones
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. View quote
Eddie Rickenbacker
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. View quote
William Westmoreland
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead. View quote
Chuck Schumer
A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same. View quote
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. View quote
Atifete Jahjaga
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet. View quote
Anna Louise Strong
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. (Anthony Holden)
You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it. View quote
Arnon Goldfinger
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. View quote
Ada Louise Huxtable
About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up. View quote
Adam Kinzinger
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. View quote
Adrian Cronauer