Famous Quotes & Sayings

but Seattle is growing fast and we're going to need a lot more than roads and bridges to handle the population that's already there.

My business New Year's resolution is to work as hard as I can to build bridges and better relationships with our municipalities. I figure that one is big enough to take the whole year.

We really want it to be something every person who visits Crystal Bridges finds engaging. We want it to be a community gathering place.

William Shakespeare

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

One of the most important priorities for me is to make sure all rails, roadways and bridges are secure.

Annie Lennox

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

Czeslaw Milosz

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

Dale Carnegie

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Cory Booker

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Dylan Moran

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

David Levithan

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

Dinah Shore

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Dinesh D'Souza

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

Anatole France

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Amelia Warner

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

Ann Brashares

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

Ann Coulter

Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?

Amy Waldman

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Brent Weeks

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

Elif Safak

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

Bob Menendez

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

David Robertson

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

Audre Lorde

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

Ben Barnes

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Aung San Suu Kyi

A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

B. C. Forbes

Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them....

There is a sense of urgency because of the possibility of another similar (weather) system starting next Wednesday. They'll focus on getting culverts, bridges and so forth cleaned.

Charles Bukowski

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Bruce Springsteen

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Alan Watts

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

Al Smith

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together,