Reconstruct Quotes

#1. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Oscar Wilde

#2. We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

Robert Jackson Bennett

#3. The third guest, a poet, had recently published a memoir about her cancer and the many operations performed in an effort to reconstruct her jaw.

David Sedaris

#4. To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. Even when they desert hell, men do so only to reconstruct it elsewhere.

Emil Cioran

#6. In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.

Sarah Parcak

#7. One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#8. He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

Wynton Marsalis

#10. As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a certain time than its intellectual atmosphere. The atmosphere is reflected not in official events but, most conspicuously, in small, personal episodes...

Stefan Zweig

#11. I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

Kit Williams

#12. Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#14. Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

C. A. Bartol

#15. Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.

Simon Schama

#16. We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.

Otto Neurath

#17. You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

Ed Cunningham

#18. For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.

Aleksandar Hemon

#19. Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

#20. Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Robert Breault

#21. I knew youd never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.

Zane Grey

#22. We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgment; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgment.

Jonathan Haidt

#23. Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

Antonio Damasio

#24. It seems that every text has more sources than it can reconstruct within its own terms.

Judith Butler

#25. True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Richard Rohr

#26. In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Jesse Jackson

#27. History is always a grand fantasy ... To reconstruct is to invent.

Eca De Queiros

#28. If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

Leon Trotsky

#29. Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Natasha Trethewey

#30. Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#31. Sink, suffer, self-destruct
Rise stronger, reconstruct

Lamb Of God

#32. Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Andy Goldsworthy

#33. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Allan Bloom

#34. The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Philip Warren Anderson

#35. We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Charles Lindbergh

#36. If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

#38. Modern reality has got such a hold on us that ... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts ... the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and ... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

Vincent Van Gogh

#39. If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Odysseas Elytis

#40. Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.

Neal Stephenson

#41. The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Honore De Balzac

#42. We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

David Richo

#43. I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

Daniel Pinkwater

#44. Men ... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child ...

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#45. Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Jeanette Winterson

#46. To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.

Lee Gutkind

#47. One possible way of couching it is to choose to say that we will take apart your skull very gently and reconstruct a skull for you that will have a highly developed bump of clarity and a slight concave dent where the fear-instinct used to be.

David Foster Wallace

#48. I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

Sara Sheridan

#49. Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Yoshihiko Noda

#50. What we now know is that our brains happily reconstruct memories, though we are frequently fooled into thinking that the reconstructions are seamlessly recorded recollections.

David DiSalvo

#51. The women were quiet. Blazing Knight checked her computing jobs on the net. A plastic surgeon was found. She could go any time and offer him a chance to repair her rotten parts, to reconstruct her again to a beautiful young female.

J.M.K. Walkow

#52. When someone tells you it's a grain of sand, there's a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

Vik Muniz

#53. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

Patricia Polacco

#54. Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Bryan Appleyard

#55. You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Grace Paley

#56. To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

Peggy Guggenheim

#57. You inability to reconstruct past beliefs will inevitably cause you to underestimate the extent to which you were surprised by past events.

Daniel Kahneman

#58. Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that is centred upon ourselves.

Raheel Farooq

#59. In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Fritz Todt

#60. Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.

Shelley E. Taylor

#61. It's interesting, isn't it, to watch this character attempting to reconstruct herself, quite literally, in the midst of this chaos?

Liz Kay

#62. We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

Joshua A. Norton

#63. We can reconstruct yesterday or construct today. We don't have time to do both.

Lauren Alexander

#64. Four years later, after Mathias had killed a further four women, and he could see that all the murders were an attempt to reconstruct the murder of his mother, he concluded that he was mad.

Jo Nesbo

#65. history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains

Philip Parker

#66. Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#67. In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Chuck Close

#68. The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

Jurgen Habermas

#69. I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work.

Sheldon Harnick

#70. So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

Rush Limbaugh

#71. I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

Fred Frith

#72. You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Kay Boyle

#73. Every film I have made has corresponded to a very special moment of my life. I like to think that if someone wanted to reconstruct the story of my life, they can just see my movies and know what I have been through.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#74. And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Leo Tolstoy

#75. I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself, but not myself. Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
The world is packed tight with fools.

Jeanette Winterson

#76. If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

Philip Levine

#77. It is difficult to reconstruct an emotion. At times it is difficult even to admit to one. I have practiced long and hard at denying entry to such twin imposters as triumph and disaster, or love and hate, but sometimes the barriers are breached.

Simon Mawer

#78. If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

Mahmoud Al-Zahar

#79. But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because a damaged human spirit seeks to resurrect and reconstruct itself; it also seeks self-consciousness.

Clovis E. Semmes

#80. The difference was that all through those eight months I had been trying to substitute an alternate reel. Now I was trying only to reconstruct the collision, the collapse of the dead star.

Joan Didion

#81. She could not imagine what she could do to reconstruct all the things she enjoyed, and she could hardly remember what it was that she had enjoyed.

Jane Smiley

#82. A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

Daniel Kahneman

#83. Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead? ... It would be the ultimate breach of privacy.

Carl Sagan

#84. I'd reconstruct Heaven, or usurp Hell
write till I swing open like a door hinge.
I arrive - a rogue who'd refurbish town.
I take my pen, begin to nail things down.

B.J. Ward

#85. If we try to think back to the dim and distant past ... what is it that helps us reconstruct those times, and to picture the lives of those who lived in them? It is their art ... It is thanks to the hand, the companion of the mind, that civilization has arisen.

Maria Montessori

#86. We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

Daniel Kahneman

#87. I must not imagine what is 'not' as a means of escaping what 'is'. Rather, I must understand what 'is' and imagine how I can make it what it is 'not'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough