#construction

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

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#engineer #father #mother #production

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #completely #construction #everything #experience

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #being #constant #constantly #construction

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts. ↗

— Hun Sen

#construction #efforts #everything #far #future

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

— William Shakespeare

#construction #face #find #mind

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#edward-said #literary-criticism #literature #postmodernism #love

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#illusory #insists #institutional #truth #truth is

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#bridges #conditions #construction #down #embarrassed

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#construction #day #get #job #mexico