1,095 Quotes About Built

  • Author Eduardo Paes
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    In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.

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  • Author Elizabeth Price
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    If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

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  • Author Greg Paulus
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    Defense is the foundation. It's what Duke's built on. It's taken us a little time to get on the same page, and tonight we were.

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  • Author Henry Petroski
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    Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

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  • Author Jeff Pentland
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    Rome can't be built in a day and I know there's been a lot of good people here before. It's a challenge for me certainly. Hopefully, I can help and I can make a difference.

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  • Author Jeffrey Passel
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    We've built fences, and we've built more fences, and we've deployed a lot of high-tech equipment, and ... clearly people are still getting in in substantial numbers. It's more expensive, and more people are dying trying to get in, but the efforts there are clearly not stopping the migrants from getting in.

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  • Author John Perkins
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    We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

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  • Author John Perkins
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    This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

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