Construction Quotes

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

Art, Mind, Find

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

Before, After, Between

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

Happiness, Greatest, Whole

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

Become, Service, Themselves

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

Politics, War, Job

The road to success is always under construction.
Lily Tomlin

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
Jose Saramago

Human, Fashion, State

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
Russell Brand

Beautiful, Yourself, Self

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

Game, Mean, Big

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
Al Roker

Her, She, Realize

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
Doug Coupland

Failure, Looks, Building

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes

Love, Money, Men

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
Stephen Jay Gould

Process, Results, Necessary

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Working, Year, Jobs

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.
Havelock Ellis

Beautiful, Rock, Hard

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.
Marilyn vos Savant

Able, Used, Read

The road to success is always under construction.
Arnold Palmer

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
James Larkin

Women, Men, Fight

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget

Knowledge, Strong, Human

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla

Good, Money, Nice

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe

Beauty, Time, Stand

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig von Mises

Evil, Spirit, Weapons

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
Adrienne Clarkson

Ourselves, Piece, Bigger

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
Hun Sen

Future, Waiting, Everything

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.
Alan Shepard

Design, End, Together

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
Eartha Kitt

Love, Down, Used

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo

Mean, Sound, Sentences

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
Bridget Moynahan

Family, Mom, Father

The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.
Paul Feig

Life, Best, Everything

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore

Give, Play, Wanted

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Construction Definition

Arthur Balfour

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us