Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Love and self-esteem are constructed through likes and followers.
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
A team is constructed with time and automatismos, habits, mechanisms.
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
As long as it's good music. I love all music. It's got to be constructed properly.
We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
The vast masterpieces of art, business, science, and humanity were not constructed by practical people.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
The income distribution system constructed in the 20th century has broken down, and it will not come back.
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.
Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.
I am pleased for Poland as a country, that new motorways are being constructed, new businesses, new stadiums.
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
I hate technically constructed actors. In fact, I hate anything technically constructed, unless it's a bridge.
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.
'Constructed Worlds' comes from a novel draft that I wrote in my early twenties and reread/revised only in my late thirties.
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.
Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
It's almost impossible that an argument would naturally form the kind of arch that it does in 'Lifespan'. So, the conversation is constructed.
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication.
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.
To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological, sexual questions.
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.