construction quotes

• 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) [construction/creation/thing/thing]
• 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) [construction/war/politics]
• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. (Walter Benjamin) [construction/life/present/power]
• 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) [construction/state/willpower/service]
• The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (Charles Dickens) [construction/creation/thing/thing]
• Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. (Albert Einstein) [construction/life/order/find]
• 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. (Noah Webster) [language/construction/needs]
• Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin. (Oscar Wilde) [construction/vulgarity]
• I thought I might be a sheet metal worker, ... But I also knew the importance of getting an education. And when I got to college, it derailed any notion I had of being in construction. The arts seemed to stimulate me more. (Benjamin Bratt) [education/being/construction/more]
• Our decline rate is almost double that of the national rate. We've got 150 construction projects per year, mostly for capacity and safety. (Chris Cooper) [construction]
• Our father was old-school. He had a very high pain threshold, and he was a southern man who didn't complain a lot. He was an outdoorsman, a construction worker, a fireman. (Kevin Richardson) [high/pain/construction]
• Once I threw a soda can at them and it was full, ... But I have to say that New York is great. I don't even get followed anymore. It's more like some construction worker leaning out a building screaming, 'Hey Matt, what the hell are you doing here?' That's actually fun. (Matt Damon) [more/construction]
• When it's mid-February, and it's bitterly cold outside, I am really glad that I'm not working in construction anymore. (Christopher Meloni) [cold/construction]
• EPA can exercise its supervisory power to block a facility’s construction, … As EPA found, the Alaska department’s own records showed there was scant, if any, evidentiary basis for choosing less stringent emission-reduction technology. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [exercise/power/construction/basis]
• fired at a construction area about 75 feet from the living quarters of the Branch Davidian complex four hours before the fire and … did not cause the fire. (John Danforth) [construction]

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