In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us. " According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.
China is soon to be probably the most powerful nation in the world, but they only making like $10,000 a year, and that's doing it. They're balling on $10,000 a year, and this is the strongest nation? But it's a billion people. The way it breaks down, if you really look at it, it's still built on the poor, on the backs of hundreds of millions of destitute, impoverished farmers that you'll never see. You just see Shanghai and you see Hong Kong.
Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.
Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.
I built a tremendous company and all I want to do is make America great again.
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.
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago
Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.
Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.
I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.
If something is built to show, it's build to grow.
I'm just not built for fairytale surprises.
Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.