#construct

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#compared #constructed #fugue #life #play

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

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

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 reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#constructed #deal #fame #hearsay #histories

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#because #believing #consensus #constructed #else

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#construction #face #find #mind

Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls. ↗

— Carly Simon

#been #before #being #business #city