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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Quote by Aristophanes about enemies, teaching, common sense, sense, war, man

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about question, order

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...

Quote by Ray Bradbury about affair, friendship, time, love, contentment

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about contentment

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Quote by George W. Bush about rest, world, contentment, people

John Kerry says we didn't have any allies in this war. What's he say to Tony Blair? What's he say to Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland? You can't expect to build an alliance when you denigrate the contributions of those who are serving.

Quote by George W. Bush about war, contentment

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Quote by George W. Bush about americans

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

Quote by George W. Bush about fear, proudness, nation, man

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Quote by George W. Bush about moon, man

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Quote by Winston Churchill about destruction, day

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Quote by Winston Churchill

And then, it is not an office job: I build my production teams, I follow the beginning of the rehearsals, the dress rehearsal, the premiere, which leaves me time to go and attend other opera performances, to find new singers for my future...

Quote by Placido Domingo about career, beginning, future, time

Much of his and also my time was spent on designing and building advanced electronic equipment for improved NMR spectrometers.

Quote by Richard Ernst about time

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one...

Quote by Paul Gauguin about limits, virtue, order, word, nothing, good, good luck, life

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Quote by Mel Gibson about home, family, children, woman

Brando, any of those are like a backbone on which you can build a skeleton and put flesh and blood in.

Quote by Peter Fonda about blood, contentment

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Quote by Henry Ford about prestige, contentment

You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Quote by Henry Ford about prestige, contentment

Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

Quote by Owen Hart about body, talking, hell

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about adventure, impossible, peace