Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Russell

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

You've got five-mile stretches to the freeways in either direction, and the bridge (would rival) the Mackinac (Bridge). C'mon, let's look at what's obviously practical.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet understands how important the Goddard Bridge project is to the public. We are working closely with the contractor to ensure this project is a success.

These are people who come from different racial backgrounds and different social classes. They are going to have to work really hard to bridge that gap.

Max Muller

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

Max Lucado

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Johan Huizinga

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Frank Lloyd Wright

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

George Clarke

Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.

John Goodman

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

Jim Rohn

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Fred Thompson

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

Fred Thompson

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Joy Harjo

At least I've had to come to that in my life, to realize that this stuff called failure, this stuff, this debris of historical trauma, family trauma, you know, stuff that can kill your spirit, is actually raw material to make things with and to build a bridge. You can use those materials to build a bridge over that which would destroy you.

Joseph Goebbels

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Paul Tillich

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.

Paul Krugman

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

Patrick Stewart

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

Marina Abramovic

I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

The fuel obviously escaped from the vessel when it collided and was burning not only in the vessel itself, the tractor-trailer, but on the bridge, on the concrete. The bridge is made of concrete, so a lot of scalding occurred from it. There's a lot of superficial damage right now,

The curves on each side of the bridge were steep.

Eddie Griffin

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

Julie Burchill

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Russell Baker

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

Mel Brooks

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Martina Navratilova

No matter where I go, I always make friends at the bridge table

Paulo Coelho

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

Paulo Coelho

Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

Paulo Coelho

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Peter Marshall

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.