Construct

Famous quotes containing the word construct:

“Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: “All that is worthless”—and want to create no value themselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Rather,
they gather the blue
objects of the world
and construct from them

a nest—”
—James Tate (b. 1943)