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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? -- Ferdinand Marcos
But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder. -- C. S. Lewis
Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno. -- David Letterman
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. -- T. D. Jakes
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. -- John Ruskin
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. -- Henry David Thoreau
The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. -- Bob Marley
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. -- Plato
When you know the builder, you can have complete confidence in the quality of his work. -- Steven Furtick
Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them. -- Joel Osteen
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself. -- Thomas Carlyle
Can be chained. Here's how the client code looks: NutritionFacts cocaCola = new NutritionFacts.Builder(240, 8). calories(100).sodium(35).carbohydrate(27).build(); -- Joshua Bloch
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. -- Norman Vincent Peale
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. -- John F. Kennedy
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God! -- David Berg
In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature. -- George Murray
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Ã?ons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles! -- Thomas Carlyle
I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions. -- Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being. -- Edgar Cayce
Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy efficient measures which help them to save money and the planet. -- Sarah Beeny
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator. -- Helen Fisher
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. -- Henri Nouwen
Consumers can choose from hundreds of channels today, including dozens for kids. At a time of dwindling resources, we don't need to be subsidizing PBS. It's time for Big Bird the mooch to compete with 'Dora the Explorer' and 'Bob the Builder.' -- Mark McKinnon
I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings. -- Joan Halifax
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a storyteller. I write also to become myself, more so day by day. Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world. -- Eppu Nuotio
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave. -- Aristotle
The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline. -- Jim Rohn
Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date. -- Flora Thompson
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things. -- Renzo Piano
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments. -- Joel Osteen
I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God. -- Rebecca Mader
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working. -- Heber J. Grant
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. -- Tadao Ando
It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder. -- Ray Comfort
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. -- Adrienne Clarkson
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. -- Martin Filler
Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character. -- Ravi Zacharias
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about. -- Christopher Alexander
People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder. -- Sean Combs
I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot. -- Donald Trump
It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as the builder of a house constructs it out of so many different kinds of things: bricks, slates, planks, panes of glass, and so on. -- William Henry Bragg
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope. -- Lex Luger
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. -- Ray Comfort
You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years. -- Criss Angel
Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder. -- Vince Lombardi
The true ship is the ship builder. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is the best builder of character. -- Adolph Rupp
One of the best confidence builder is experience. -- Jaymin Shah
I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right. -- Brian Tracy
The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections. -- Leonard Lauder
Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder. -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future. -- Debasish Mridha
Spirit is the life, the mind the builder the physical the result -- Edgar Cayce
In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. -- Morton Blackwell
If you don't fear the failure, then failures are the best muscle builder. -- Debasish Mridha
The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver. -- Hans Selye
Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality. -- Steve Maraboli
Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet. -- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner. -- Donald Bren
Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool. -- Peter Lawford
There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana -- Dave Eggers
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. -- Tom Scholz
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things. -- Renzo Piano
Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation. -- Strive Masiyiwa
Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. -- Neal Asher
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes. -- Ilka Chase
We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there -- Felix Sabates
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. -- John Ruskin
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper. -- Robert Benchley
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. -- Renzo Piano
I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process. -- Demetri Martin
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. -- Oscar Romero
I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types. -- Stephen Mangan
I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types. -- Stephen Mangan
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. -- Orison Swett Marden
No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling. -- Jim Leach
I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all. -- Billie Whitelaw
As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed. -- Peter Karmanos, Jr.
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be. -- Isaac Marion
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. -- Bobby Seale
Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder. -- Shahid Kapoor
if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder. -- Hammurabi
I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot. -- Louise Nurding
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. -- Renzo Piano
I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder. -- Paula White
I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my life. -- Tommy Chong
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. -- W. H. Auden
I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher. -- Billy Magnussen
You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece. -- Rick Yancey
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs. -- Robert Moses
I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max. -- Max Walker
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator. -- Luc de Clapiers
If you are to be an effective nation builder, make it your business, to understand what is really happening in the economy, both nationally and globally. -- Strive Masiyiwa
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. -- Hosea Ballou
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles. -- Steve Case
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. -- Christopher Alexander
I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches. -- David Brock
I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened. -- Roger Deakins
The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built. -- Watchman Nee
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned. -- Maria Montessori
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us. -- Diane Setterfield
I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do. -- Terry Semel
I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I haveâ??that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex. -- Napoleon Hill
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market. -- Karl Marx
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again. -- Gautama Buddha
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day. -- Will Rogers
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds

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