Erects Quotes

#1. Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.

Joseph Alleine

#2. What a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.

James W. Loewen

#3. For this reason the bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. That

Hermann Hesse

#4. Those who exclaim that "animals are not people" tend to forget that, while true, it is equally true that people are animals. To minimize the complexity of animal behavior without doing the same for human behavior erects an artificial barrier.

Frans De Waal

#5. A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

Karl Marx

#6. Wherever God erects a house of prayer
the Devil always builds a chapel there;
And t'will be found, upon examination,
the latter has the largest congregation.
- Defoe's The True-Born Englishman, 1701

Daniel Defoe

#7. The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

Brian Herbert

#8. In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.

August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

#10. I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

William Hazlitt

#12. Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Quentin Crisp

#13. The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

Alistair Begg

#14. I've been consumed day and night and noon, building beds in your tear ducts, planting lilacs and wars in your skull. I live in you now. This is how art erects homes in your body.

Erica Alex

#15. The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

Hermann Hesse

#16. Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

Mason Cooley

#17. Luther once wrote, "Where God builds His Church, the devil erects a chapel next to it."15 Luther's point was that the devil is always seeking to mimic the works of God.

Robert H. Bennett

#18. As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Nan Fairbrother

#19. Myself, I knew a writer - not your father - who once told me his worst day writing was better than his best day not writing.

Jane Lotter

#20. Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell.

Joe Garagiola

#21. She'd left him.
Without a word. Without a thought. She'd left him and now he had
feelings.
For that alone, he'd never forgive her.

G.A. Aiken

#22. By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#23. I find it a pity everything is going digital these days with these humans going crazy for devices such as Kindles.

J.J. Jones

#24. If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

Emil Zatopek

#25. I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

Robert Mondavi

#26. There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

John Breaux