#construction

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#before #between #constructed #construction #created

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bowed #country #enemy #highest #nation

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bills #boost #china #common #common sense

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#apprehend #been #case #constructions #i

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#construction #financing #innovative #most #nation

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#does #end #good #infrastructure #investing

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#doing #flights #good #keep #maintenance

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#beauty #building #construction #foundation #look