Construction Quotes

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college.

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

Milan is showing a new and different face. At Porta Nuova, too, when they started construction, everyone was up in arms, saying Milan was going to lose its character.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Fully fund the construction of a wall on our southern border. Don't worry about it. Remember, I said Mexico is paying for the wall.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make things. If people are not interested in that, fine. I just don't give a damn.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all those sentences are timed perfectly.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

I like anybody who does any kind of construction.

Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic ... And I bet you they're illegal.

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President Jonathan's benevolence to women is unbelievably phenomenal.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.