Quotessence
Home / Topics / Built Quotes

Built Quotes

Browse 2946 quotes about Built.

Related topics

PeopleIfsWorldThinkingMenWayHouseKnowsWantYearsHumansFoundationHas BeensFirstsMadeCountryBuildingWellsCitiesWholeNeedsShouldKindLooksAmericaFeelsHomeLittlesCompanyFactsLongTwoArtIdeasMayCharacterMindStillsEndsMeanLastsPersonsTodayTryingBelieveGivingRealNationsSelfStructureBodyStatesDifferentHeartWallDoneStoriesChildrenCultureDoeEarthStrongTogetherMatterSocialWritingBigsImportantSaidStonesCareersHandsLawReasonValuesCommunityMachinesPastAbleChurchDreamSchoolBookIndividualMightShowsWantedWarBridgesCertainFormGovernmentHardI CanLyingOrderRunningFoundMaterialsThreemore

Built Quotes

“I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.”

ThinkingShouldTurnsAirGrewDadGrew UpBuiltShould HaveMy DadCaliforniaSwimmingPoolConsistentlyTurn-onConditioningBackyardsSummertimeSwimming PoolAir ConditioningNorthern CaliforniaAir Conditioner
Author:Summer Sanders
Create image

“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”

WorldWayWritingYearsTwoSelfLastsMotherHalfBuiltIllTwo YearsSexismCakeBalancedBeing A MotherScoldedIll TemperedBalanced Relationship
Author:Margaret Mead
Create image

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

YearsChildrenDesireOrderGirlFatherSocialParentAttitudeConditionsProtectTenEssentialsBuiltProtectionTemptationAdjustmentSocial OrderCounterparts
Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world
Create image

“Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.”

IfsMenArtMadeMightHouseLevelsBuiltCookingArchitectureEvery ManMade ItArt And ScienceCookerySportive
Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
Create image

“Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.”

KnowsMenMayHas BeensOrderFallHouseBeliefHonestEventsHonestyBuiltEarsAriseBeing HonestServantIntimateShakesSilverSuspectsAssuredEarthquakesFrenzy
Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
Create image

“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.”

WorldWantCountryKidsSchoolPoorMillionsPerspectiveCostBuiltDivorceAround The WorldKimPoor CountriesAccess To EducationGetting A Divorce
Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
Create image

“It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.”

BuiltStonesFoundationStructureCleanGoldenChampionshipStrictMy ThoughtsGolden RuleSportsmanshipObservanceClean Living
Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography
Create image

“The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction - not merely the idea - that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.”

WayLittlesIdeasSoulWholeSpiritDiesHouseVoicePlansDemandBuiltConvictionNoiseDrowningConvenientInconvenientOratoryPartition
Book:Advent with Evelyn Underhill
Create image

“With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.”

HelpingGovernmentChristianValuesBeliefReligiousGroupsLandBuiltPressureCatholicFinalsJewTraditionalAliensBigotryTheologianFrontiersForefathersCountercultureBeliefs And ValuesPressure Groups
Author:Cal Thomas
Create image

“Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.”

MenWorldBookMatterDoneCharacterFactsMightCitiesWrittenHabitBuiltMachinesDefinedIntimateMusclesAccomplishedPeculiarOrgansMotor
Book:Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)
Create image

“Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades.”

PeopleIfsHas BeensGenerationsHeardEssentialsBenefitsBuiltRemainsInspiredDecadesEvolveAccomplishmentRelevantJaneFuture GenerationJacobEssayistsKernelGroundbreaking
Author:Majora Carter
Create image

“Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”

HandsStrongMemoriesNumbersBrainInformationDesignComputerMassBuiltEfficientAccurateFlexibilityGraspingComputation
Author:Jeremy Campbell
Create image

“Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.”

LoveNeedsDoeAgeTodaySchoolYoungTimeAbilityEducationTeachingBuiltHatredExperienceAngerEducationalFocusedVulnerableTensionInsecurePyramidsIncompetenceRivalryIncompetentParentalEducational SystemApexHatred For Love
Author:Lawrence S. Kubie
Create image

“Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.”

PeopleFirstsDifferentEyeLyingDifferencesRaceFeetColorHairShapesBuiltSkinsSignificantBrownHierarchyTextureLightersShowing UpSkin ColorEye Color
Author:Benjamin Jealous
Create image

“I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it's bred. And it's built to last. It breathes and it feels good. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool, because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. So your body temperature stays at a good warmth rather than freezing your ass off.”

KnowsFeelsI CanFactsBodyLastsNaturalKnow HowWeekColdBuiltAppreciateHotWarmSmellBreatheYour BodyAssFeel GoodSuitsClimbingWarmthHikingTemperatureGearsBecause I CanFiberFreezingWoolBody Temperature
Author:Jason Clarke
Create image

“The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.”

ShouldFactsViewsClearGroupsActivityConceptsBuiltDefinitionsDefinedDescribingProceeding
Book:General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology
Create image

“[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.”

PeopleIfsThinkingYearsLooksStoriesUsePastRememberNextSocialFiveBuiltSevenConnectedFive YearsSiteSeven YearsNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkStory People
Author:Mark Zuckerberg
Create image

“A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.”

MenHumansFactsAgeNationsInterestViewsCommonPrinciplesSacrificeMankindHuman NatureSucceedCapableBuiltAdvantageAccountsConstitutionInstitutionsVainConvinceMaximsGoverningCommon GoodDepravityConvince Us
Author:George Washington
Create image

“Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.”

TryingLittlesStoriesGirlDadRepublicanDaughterBuiltDemocraticDemocratChairsCopiesConventionsElectricJohn KerryHamstersElectric ChairCpr
Author:Jay Leno
Create image

“Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.”

YearsSufferingCitiesCasesBuiltRiversTownsAgreeHeavySpotsSicknessRemoveOutletsUnhealthyStagnantPetitionsVaporMarshes
Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Create image