Quotation Explorer - 'Construction'

Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. - S. E. Lindsay
Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires. - Dannye Williamsen
What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination. - Joey Lawsin
We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction. - Shannon L. Alder
The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. - Caroline Knapp
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. - Noelie Altito
Three people were at work on a construction site. All were doing the same job, but when each was asked what thejob was, the answers varied. "Breaking rocks," the first replied. "Earning my living," the second said. "Helping tobuild a cathedral," said the third. - P. Schultz
The road to success is always under construction - Lily Tomlin
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams. - Umberto Boccioni
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. - Charles Dickens
His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence - Nikki Giovanni
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. - Roland Barthes
It is only once we stop taking everything for granted and fully open our hearts to the beauty that surrounds us that we will understand the importance of joining our hands in the construction of a better world for the people of generations to come. - Francisco Battiti
Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty. - Sunday Adelaja
My life: under construction, but beautiful. - A.D. Posey
Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday. - Donal O'Callaghan
Roads to SUCCESS are always under construction. You are work in progress. Keep growing and keep living. - Adedayo Olabamiji
he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy. - Muhammad Iqbal
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins
Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn how to untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires. - Dannye Williamsen
WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride. - Ambrose Bierce
One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things. - Kathleen Rowland
Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. - Wilkie Collins
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
Far from being a meaningless void, chaos is the source of creativity and construction in nature and in social dynamics.
Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction. - Eric T. Benoit
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation a force for construction and destruction. - Jonathan Haidt
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