Top 100 Construct Quotes
#1. It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.
Vanna Bonta
#2. It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.
Stephanie Coontz
#3. Trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct
Lemony Snicket
#4. The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.
Timothy Leary
#5. We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
Paul Klee
#6. You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man."
"Screw you, Barrons."
"I'm not that man, either.
Karen Marie Moning
#7. Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
Prince
#8. [F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#9. What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life.
H.W. Charles
#10. Here, astoundingly, crucifixion on a cross is a model around which Paul's audiences are to construct the whole of their life.
Bruce W. Longenecker
#11. I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind's eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver.
Paul Caponigro
#12. Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)
Arthur C. Clarke
#13. Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.
Susan Neiman
#14. In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.
Kate Atkinson
#15. Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.
Manuel Neuer
#16. But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.
Antonio Damasio
#17. It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
Jimenez Lai
#18. Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
Immanuel Kant
#19. However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.
Ventseslav Konstantinov
#20. When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth.
Dana Gore
#21. I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.
Jasper Johns
#23. I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.
Scott Aukerman
#24. Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
Robert Anton Wilson
#25. At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.
Jennifer Birkett
#26. I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.
Paul Scheuring
#27. Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.
Jim Morrison
#28. I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey ... executing the plan!
Nancy Lublin
#29. Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
Susan Griffin
#31. Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.
Luigi Pirandello
#32. Sometimes diaspora art expresses a longing for home, and frequently it tries to construct a collective identity out of its mostly heterogeneous reality.
Sieglinde Lemke
#33. The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.
N. T. Wright
#34. Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
Eoin Colfer
#35. I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
Lisa Unger
#36. One answer to the question "Who is a transsexual?" might well be "Anyone who admits it." A more political answer might, "Anyone whose performance of gender calls into question the construct of gender itself.
Kate Bornstein
#37. A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.
Edward Hirsch
#38. You cherry-pick events that are relevant to the story question and construct a gauntlet of challenge (read: the plot) that will force the protagonist to put his money where his mouth is. Think baptism by ever-escalating fire.
Lisa Cron
#39. Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. You don't construct your stories well, Pugsy. You start at the end, then go back to any part which happens to appeal to you at the moment, and eventually wind up at the beginning.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.
Dale Spender
#42. Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Anselm Kiefer
#43. It remains, for me, the most powerful and elegant explanation of how we humans and our brains construct our very individual selves and worlds.
Oliver Sacks
#44. I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
Barbara Kruger
#45. As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don't know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).
Fernando Pessoa
#46. Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.
Berenice Abbott
#47. First learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.
Susan Blackmore
#49. We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.
Jerome Bruner
#50. Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
#51. If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.
Leo Fender
#52. The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
Andrea Dworkin
#53. The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.
Peg O'Connor
#54. So it is not one whit mysterious that we poison the water and air and topsoil, and construct ever more cunning doomsday devices, both industrial and military. Let us be perfectly frank for a change. For practically everybody, the end of the world can't come soon enough.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.
Orson Scott Card
#56. We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.
Chris Adami
#57. Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.
Norman Macbeth
#58. Embedded in every tool is an ideological bias, a predisposition to construct the world as one thing rather than another, to value one thing over another, to amplify one sense or skill or attitude more loudly than another.
Neil Postman
#59. Heaven is just a construct people who fear death made up.
Eiji Mikage
#60. In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.
John Maus
#61. The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.
Bertrand Russell
#62. The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.
Alphonse Mucha
#63. Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
but no mouse would ever construct
a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein
#64. I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
Damon Lindelof
#65. One must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.
Nancy Hale
#66. Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#67. If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.
Malala Yousafzai
#68. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.
Mohsin Hamid
#69. What if," replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to shield the words from public view?
Lyndsay Faye
#70. But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.
David Cronenberg
#71. If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
Larry Constantine
#72. The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.
Pat Conroy
#73. Man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.
Samuel Florman
#74. The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.
Richard Grossman
#75. We have the ability to construct our own futures, albeit not in circumstances of our own choosing
Steven Pinker
#76. We'll do our business in the East Room. It's my favorite at this time of day. If you and I didn't know God is a profitable and self-sustaining construct of the worlds' churches, the morning light would be almost enough to make us believers again.
Stephen King
#77. Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
Mary Szybist
#78. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine
#79. Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"
and want to create no value themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
Dalai Lama XIV
#81. Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
Immanuel Kant
#82. I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
John Burns
#83. As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.
Adelle Davis
#84. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic.
Pete Wilson
#86. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
Steve Jobs
#87. The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning ... The ethical and moral questions ... in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process
William Kentridge
#88. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.
Judith Butler
#90. Time itself is a creation of the restless mind; space has been created by the same mind to give itself room to wander when in fact there is no space beyond a mental construct that, like all constructs, eventually turns into a prison.
Alan W. Watts
#91. The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.
Dave Barry
#92. Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter
#93. Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.
Robert Lanza
#94. Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
Sigmund Freud
#95. We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
Filippo Brunelleschi
#96. Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!
Richard Koch
#97. She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
Anthony Trollope
#98. I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.
Robert Altman
#99. I enjoy feeling fastidious and aloof. I enjoy saying no, always no, and I should be afraid of any attempt to construct a finally habitable world, because I should merely have to say - Yes; and act like other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#100. In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
Edward Abbey
