“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.” IfsKnowsHas BeensTwoKnow HowNew YorkBuildingBlock Author:Al Franken
“I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.” ThinkingHas BeensHardRealityCoursesSidesSpaceAnswersConsciousnessObjectsBuildingScientistPhysicsConsideringTime And SpaceDivorced Author:Robert Lanza
“Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)” MayHas BeensBuildingDemonParkingParking LotPush Ups Author:Dan Harris
“...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.” Has BeensBuildingPyramidsPharaohsKhufu Author:Michael Tsarion
“Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.” GivingHas BeensBuildingProtectGiving UpDefinitionsSurfaceHarmInsecurity Author:David Whyte
“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” MenWorldWantKindHas BeensAgeAsksNaturalWonderWonderfulLonelinessBuildingSummerHotelMarsGrandeurArizonaCottagesCanyonsGrand CanyonSublimityWonder Of NatureNatural Wonders Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.” MenWorldHas BeensMadeDoneWholeBodyAmericaNationsFeltConditionsBuildingHe ManPrideWhole WorldAccomplishedCanalsDebtorsTropicsPanamaPanama Canal Book:Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
“The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, billboards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground.” ShouldLongHas BeensMadeCitiesAirBuildingPostsWireAutomobileHideousBillboards Book:The affluent society Source: The affluent society
“Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.” WorldWayWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHas BeensNaturalHuman BeingsDealsBloodBuildingOfficeLettersPermanentGet BetterBoardsDepartmentEmbarrassedNatural WorldGroceriesPostersWrong WayDonateMarkersRwandaCustodiansOffice BuildingsDonating Blood Author:Sufjan Stevens
“There is also the fact that NORAD-Northeast was conducting war game exercises that morning, a fact that has been very little talked about and certainly not reported to the general public. What's also not been reported, according to the information that I have, at least one of the scenarios they were considering in their war game exercises concerned hijacked aircraft being crashed into buildings. Now, this could explain the lack of response when the air traffic controllers began to report that four planes were off course.” LittlesHas BeensWarFactsCoursesGamesMorningFourAirInformationBuildingExerciseConcernedResponsePlanesReportsConsideringTrafficScenariosAircraftConductingGeneral PublicControllersWar GamesAir Traffic Controller Author:Jim Marrs
“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.” PeopleYearsHas BeensWholeRealityCareersBuildingGoldenEducatedCoveredRetirementIvyTenureRetirement Years Author:Thomas Sowell
“It's hard for me to believe that it [World Trade Center Building 7] came down by itself... Twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.” PeopleWorldWayYearsBelieveLooksHas BeensHardDoneGovernmentTodayBuildingTwentiesTradeAssassinationWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Andrew Napolitano