#building

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#country #development #human #human mind #into

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. ↗

— Richard Meier

#building #century #city #frozen #half

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#baltimore #building #families #i #now

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#burden #coalition #continue #cost #diplomacy

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. ↗

— Enid Nemy

#building #corner #could #dead #designed

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. ↗

— Larry Niven

#building #built #dozen #everyone #insane

I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#big #building #certain #certain things #double

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#billionaires #building #children #class #create

The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#building #corner #cut #decide #entire

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#american #apply #attacking #buildings #compound