Built Quotes

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.