A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.
NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.
I wasn’t raised, I was built.
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. . . Their faith is their passport.
An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.
A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.
The temple of art is built in words.
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.