#construct

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

#build #democracy #die #every #home

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#construction #did #i #jobs #just

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#directly #either #evidence #having #his

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. ↗

— Charles Simic

#deconstruction #language #poetry #experience

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#bridges #certain #certain things #construction #country

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#execution #first #human #i #law

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops. ↗

— Norah Jones

#chops #constructed #first #i #make

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#construction #creation #get #less #love

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#engineer #father #mother #production

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. ↗

— Peter King

#anguish #causing #construct #deep #else