Built In Quotes

#1. Deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

Peter Hoeg

#2. Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.

Rachel Carson

#3. Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#4. Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

Scott Nicholson

#5. I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

Johnny Cash

#6. Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Noam Chomsky

#7. Home wasn't built in a day

Jane Ace

#8. When a man attempts to build something in the physical realm that has not been built in the spiritual one, he will most certainly fail.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.

Steven Weinberg

#10. Rome wasn't built in one day, just like our relationship didn't happen in the blink of an eye.

Claudia Y. Burgoa

#11. Sing, Muse, of high, moulded ceilings and built-in bookcases chockablock with hardcovers!

Garth Risk Hallberg

#12. One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

Baltasar Gracian

#13. If you are obedient to God and do that what He has already created and built in the spiritual realm, then God's creative power will make your job easy, and only then will the things you build be long lasting, able to stand the test of time.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

Mitt Romney

#15. Istanbul being a city where houses were not built in accordance with road plans but road plans made so as not to upset the location of the houses.

Elif Shafak

#16. The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Enid Bagnold

#17. I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

Celeste Ng

#18. According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.

Willie Dixon

#19. We all have our particular preferences. Mine is gentle sex, the kind in which a man takes forever before he touches you down there. But most people are so guilty about sex that they want the crime and the punishment built in.

Erica Jong

#20. My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. 'Cause I'm plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. What didn't I get to open this year?

Laura Kightlinger

#21. I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.

Victoria Wilson

#22. Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

William James

#23. The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

John C. Bogle

#24. The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.

James MacDonald

#25. One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

Brian Lindstrom

#26. [S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.

Joan Silber

#27. Beck must have seen how frightened she was because his expression softened. He leaned close, and whispered, "Do ya trust me, Riley?"
Tears built in her eyes.
"Yes," she whispered, trembling in fear. Always.
"Then it'll be all right," he replied. Beck gently placed a kiss on her forehead.

Jana Oliver

#28. It's not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.

M.R. Carey

#29. Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

Jack Kerouac

#30. Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

Margaret Mead

#31. The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.

Margaret Atwood

#32. My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

James Cagney

#33. The castle itself was a huge brick pile, built in the days of William III., which, though they were grand days for the construction of the constitution, were not very grand for architecture of a more material description.

Anthony Trollope

#34. I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

Fernando Alonso

#35. Super-luxury hotels are being built in outer space.
The new type of heaven is being offered to humans.

Toba Beta

#36. Most computers today have built in backup software.

Barton Gellman

#37. Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

David Maraniss

#38. Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership?

Jonah Books

#39. One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.

Jonathan Yardley

#40. Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#41. More important than the material issue ... the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us ... the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.

Gerard K. O'Neill

#42. Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

Nana Awere Damoah

#43. Many of our racetracks were built in the '60s - not much real estate for runoff.

Connie Kalitta

#44. Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

Stephen Colbert

#45. A built-in reminder is the simple understanding that whenever any kind of unhappiness arises, you know you've lost the now. That's a built-in alarm clock. The moment you realize you've lost the now, come back to the now.

Eckhart Tolle

#46. I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.

Jeffrey Archer

#47. The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

P. W. Botha

#48. When you say you experience my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar is the temple I built in my obliterated place.

Cheryl Strayed

#49. The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Rosemary Mahoney

#50. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. ... "Built-in" does not mean unmalleable; it means "organized in advance of experience."3

Jonathan Haidt

#51. 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?

Dakota Fanning

#52. I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

Nate Berkus

#53. Rome wasn't built in a day, except in Lego Land

Josh Stern

#54. Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling.

Michelle Hodkin

#55. In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

Octavio Paz

#56. Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

#57. They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Brian Clough

#58. First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

Marc Andreessen

#59. You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.

Nirmala Srivastava

#60. Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Seth Godin

#61. I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

Ben Katchor

#62. I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

Philip K. Dick

#63. You can be desperate but do not be hasty. No city is built in a day

Justice Clement

#64. Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.

Narendra Modi

#65. Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.

James Anthony Froude

#66. Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.

Billy Cannon

#67. When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being.

Floyd Skloot

#68. The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Charles Williams

#69. Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.

Krystal Sutherland

#70. There's a built-in ending to everything in the world, right?

Jennifer Niven

#71. I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.

Sylvester Stallone

#72. The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

Harrison Birtwistle

#73. The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

Alice Morse Earle

#74. 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.

George Saunders

#75. 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.

John Shimkus

#76. Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

Kanye West

#77. The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on ... This was the greatest surprise for everyone.

Max Delbruck

#78. An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

Jodi Picoult

#79. My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by piece and reconstructed them about 50 miles to the west on the New York/Connecticut border.

Daryl Hall

#80. The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

Alain Enthoven

#81. computers are limited by our ability to program them, so we've got a built-in advantage. Instead,

Randall Munroe

#82. I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.

Jon Bernthal

#83. Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.

Michael Specter

#84. In other words, every human brain has the built-in capacity to become, over time, what we demand of it. No ability is fixed. Practice can even change the brain.

Lisa Delpit

#85. I believe that eventually, one of the next big issues that will have to be addressed globally is the role of state-owned enterprises. Because there is a disadvantage that's built in.

Hillary Clinton

#86. In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Ernest Hemingway,

#87. Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

Jimmy Cliff

#88. Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body

Tony Horton

#89. There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

Moshe Dayan

#90. There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#91. There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.

Richard Corliss

#92. Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray.

Wolfgang Schauble

#93. Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.

E.L. Konigsburg

#94. He heard the sob she tried to swallow back and thought unhappily that if all the storybooks were right, that there was nobility to be found in adversity and character to be built in tribulation, then he was doing a piss-poor job of both finding and building.

Anonymous

#95. In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Stephen Gardiner

#96. Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.

Ted Sarandos

#97. The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever. But does forever have a built-in ending ... ?

Jennifer Niven

#98. I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go - me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he'll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school.

Jennifer Niven

#99. Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder.

Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

Vicki Lewis Thompson

#100. This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Stanislav Grof