(3301 quotes found)
“It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run”
Charles F. Kettering
“Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”
Louis Binstock
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.”
Clarence Day
“You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone”
Jorge Luis Borges
“We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation”
Daniel Defoe
“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.”
Thomas Kempis
“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”
Tommy Cooper
“When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.”
Donald Trump
