Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.
Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. . . . Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.
If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.
I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.
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.
I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.
I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend.
Optimism, positivity and faith create the foundation from which success can be built.
Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.
Honesty. . . is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it. . . there can be no trust. Widespread lying destroys the fabric of democratic societies, in which the necessary assumption is that people mostly tell the truth.
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.