Construes Quotes

#1. From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world
what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

Bruno Bettelheim

#2. My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

Del Howison

#4. I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

Erma Bombeck

#5. I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

Malcolm Forbes

#6. We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

Carolyn Wells

#7. Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.

Lily King

#8. For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

Isaac Newton

#9. You can't imagine how hard it is to come home from hell and be expected to pick up the threads of a life. Apply for jobs, go to a factory, punch in, punch out. Put your lunch in a bag and get on the omnibus every day. Like nothing happened. Nothing.

Simone St. James

#10. Both oral and written stories are an important aspect of culture. Stories are a ubiquitous component of human communication. People use stories to explain historical events and to illustrate ideology. Stories teach ethical principles through parables.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.

Amy Reed

#12. There were two off-campus Negro fraternities, one of which Chester pledged for, but even these, he said later, admitted students on the basis of skin shadings, with men of lighter complexion being viewed as more desirable.2

Edward Margolies

#13. There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Benito Mussolini

#14. Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.

Natalia Jaster

#15. I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Judi Dench

#16. Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory.

Franz Kafka