Shoddily Built Quotes & Sayings

As the family goes, so go the children. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions. — Dan Miller

The happiest people in the world cry over the smallest grievances. — Neha Yazmin

Even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal. — Stephen King

I'm in love with you. And I can't let you get away. — Melanie Harlow

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. — E.L. Doctorow

Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time. — Mary Gaitskill

What (the Arizona immigration law) is likely to mean effectively is that if in the course of a traffic stop, a cop asks you for a driver's license, and you don't have one, and he asks you for other identification, and you have none, and he calls ICE and they have no record of you as a legal immigrant, you're in trouble. This is near-fascism? — Rich Lowry

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale. — Lewis Mumford