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Letter "C" » constructions
«The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
constructed, constructing, construction, constructions, constructs, Creation, exactly, exists
«The shortest distance between two points is under construction.»
«The road to success is always under construction»
Author: Lily Tomlin
(Actress, Comedian)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
construction, constructions, road, take the road, under
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, affections, arising, bases, broad, broadest, broads, close to, construction, constructions, dictionary, generations, ground, joys, low, Makers, tastes, The Makers, ties
«Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.»
Author: William Zinsser
| Keywords:
circular, cluttered, constructions, frills, jargon, jargon of, pompous, strangling, unnecessary
«For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, appearances, construction, constructions, escaped, Everything or Nothing, foundations, tearing, Things Fall Apart, veil, vividly
«It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Another World, collapses, completing, constructing, construction, constructions, Dissolves, dissolving, frantically, habitation
«Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
construction, constructions, cosmos, emotional, narrow, Personal experience, pivot, pivots, security, whirlpool
«All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.»
«Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
constructions, inference, inferences, Judges, strained, torture
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