Quotes of: Building-blocks Keyword

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Scott Nearing

In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He’s examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list. ‘What are you looking for?’ I ask him, in ...

How to Build a Girl

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme...

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how to ride waves. I remember him constantly emphasizing the fact that no wave, no matter how big it is should stir enough fear inside me...

Malak El Halabi

Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. The Australian Aborigines are the exception, though. They managed...

Kafka on the Shore

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Community And Growth

No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.

Coma House

Prayer is a way, a road we build for love to walk into our lives.

Can't Buy Me Love

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management: A Handbook for PR and Communications Professionals

Now it’s when you build your association with the members, they are already there.

Ctrl+Alt+Believe: Reboot Your Association For Success

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Disarming Detective

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Dracula

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Fearlessly Feminine

You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.

The Flinch

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

Girl Meets God

Our job here is not to build a better world...but to do all we can to help make it brighter.

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

I have a fist like a brick, but I don’t punch through walls—I build them and become them.  

A brick and a blanket walk into a bar

I’m not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don’t go building castles in the air. You’ll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.

Baby Bonanza

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

The Big Red Book