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I've never really had a media edifice supporting me. -- Tucker Max
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. -- Andre Maurois
The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. -- Prince Charles
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. -- Abdoulaye Wade
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. -- C. V. Raman
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. -- Ansel Adams
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. -- Barton Gellman
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids? -- Seth Shostak
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. -- Isaac Mayer Wise
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. -- Thomas Mann
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. -- Jose Rizal
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. -- Charles H. Townes
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice. -- John Dos Passos
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind. -- Frank McCourt
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. -- Hu Shih
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured. -- Greg Graffin
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness. -- Jan Hus
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. -- James Chanos
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. -- Joshua Foer
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. -- Pope John Paul II
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed. -- Margo Kingston
Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders. -- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use. -- John Ruskin
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure -- Ambrose Bierce
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another. -- John Galsworthy
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. -- Ambrose Bierce
I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. -- George Bernard Shaw
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. -- Arundhati Roy
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. -- Victor Hugo
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice. -- Angela Davis
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying." -- Mark Twain
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. -- Mark Twain
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within. -- Gwen Bristow
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. -- Arthur Koestler
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin. -- Samuel Johnson
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. -- Charles H. Townes
We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal." -- Jack Paar
The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying. -- William Greenough Thayer Shedd
I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the tower Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light... -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. -- Pope Francis
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying. -- Noam Chomsky
Round and round will Americans be compelled to ride on a mindless, manufactured, racial carousel ... for without it, the edifice of an industry built upon grievance and excuse-making is destined to collapse. -- Ilana Mercer
Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it's required of you! Give out; conquer greed! -- Israelmore Ayivor
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. -- Ambrose Bierce
in many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism. -- Jonah Goldberg
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice. -- Lydia Sigourney
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. -- Charles Dickens
You will arise, so start by attempting to rise. Don't give space for failure to erect local huts in your land; agree that you are constructing a global edifice there! Think possibility and be hopeful!" -- Israelmore Ayivor
Animal experiments occupy a central place in the material and spiritual edifice of our whole civilization. We are speaking here of one of those foundation stones whose removal could cause the whole house to collapse. -- Rudolf Bahro

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