#structures

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#been #brick #collapse #due #i

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#around #basic #breath #building #good

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#actions #affinities #among #architecture #arts

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. ↗

— Michael Behe

#carries #chemical #chemical reactions #life #living

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#cannot #class #luxury #structures #we cannot

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#could #go #horribly #i #person

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#amazing #amazing things #application #art #art form

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#alone #does #feel #nato #part

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#could #everything #fellow #fellow citizens #happen