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In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. -- Fritz Todt
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. -- Chuck Close
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form. -- Andy Goldsworthy
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. -- Grace Paley
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge. -- Yoshihiko Noda
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. -- Kit Williams
Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. -- Fred Frith
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct a sentence. I find that enjoyable work. -- Sheldon Harnick
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better. -- Natasha Trethewey
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. -- Allan Bloom
Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles. -- Godfrey Hounsfield
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared. -- Emperor Norton
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. -- Philip Levine
So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed. -- Rush Limbaugh
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. -- Jesse Jackson
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it. -- Noam Chomsky
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. -- Terry Eagleton
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well! -- Patricia Polacco
Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they can't see the multiple colors required to reconstruct a color image of the world. They do, however, have specialized cells that enable them to see ultraviolet wavelengths. -- Michael Dickinson
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. -- Daniel Pinkwater
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos. -- Aleksandar Hemon
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them. -- Rosemary Mahoney
Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize. -- Bruno Dumont
Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct -- Lamb of God
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct. -- Richard Rohr
You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins. -- Kay Boyle
History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent. -- Eça De Queirós
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. -- Jeanette Winterson
We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive. -- Charles Lindbergh
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. -- Bryan Appleyard
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness. -- William James
The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding. -- Jurgen Habermas
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. -- Oscar Wilde
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him. -- J. K. Rowling
We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not? -- Robert Jackson Bennett
You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens. -- Ed Cunningham
We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now. -- David Richo
Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation. -- Robert Breault
you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious. -- Daniel Kahneman
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. -- Leo Tolstoy
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. -- Odysseas Elytis
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature? -- Leon Trotsky
We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components. -- Otto Neurath
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. -- Winston Churchill
Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to reconstruct the memories or insight of someone long dead?...It would be the ultimate breach of privacy. -- Carl Sagan
If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss. -- Mahmoud al-Zahar
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that. -- Daniel Kahneman
Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. -- Shelley E. Taylor

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