Quotes about wall
wall trading-floor camaraderie
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor. Chelsea Clinton
wall hate machines
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! Che Guevara
wall distance views
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.
wall block heart
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.
wall imf today
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
wall children educational
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.
wall successful empowering
Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.' Chelsea Handler
wall shadow monsters
The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id. Charlie Pierce
wall men wind
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? Charles Lindbergh
wall airplane voice
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through the walls of the fuselage as though no walls were there . . . familiar voices, conversing and advising on my flight, discussing problems of my navigation, reassuring me, giving me messages of importance unattainable in ordinary life.
wall lying moats
You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933...Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns. Charles Krauthammer
wall tired air
I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk! Charles Lamb
wall shapes rooms
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them. Aidan Chambers
wall love-you wings
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out William Shakespeare
wall pride men
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die. Bernard Cornwell
wall function
I function better when my back is to the wall. Bernard Hopkins
wall believe information
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England Bernard Baruch
wall ipads phones
The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV? Chad Hurley
wall broke abode
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke. Carolyn Wells
wall loneliness men
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor. Carlos Castaneda
wall space infinity
Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
wall warrior winning
Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.
wall warrior men
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
wall broken people
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after. C. S. Lewis
wall hands government
The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have. Agnes Macphail
wall ballet hours
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour. Catherine Zeta-Jones
wall wine love-is
Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else. Catherynne M. Valente
wall men years
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man. Don Cheadle
wall shoes
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all. Dr. Seuss
wall branches gothic
Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles. Dorothy L. Sayers
wall attitude father
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down. Donny Osmond
wall mistake ladders
The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall. Donald Rumsfeld
wall politics bangs
Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse. Don Henley