Quotes about wall
wall powerful gold
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. Horace
wall doors fire
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. Horace
wall home player
You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall. Hank Aaron
wall night black
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror. Guy de Maupassant
wall order dancing
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
wall war rights
This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on. Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing... We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns. Gore Vidal
wall paint pardon-me
Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. Friedrich Nietzsche
wall angel hands
Strider's bedroom "The only thing hanging on the wall that wasn't a weapon was the portrait just over the bed. No. Not true, he thought then. The portrait was a weapon, too. Of seduction. In it Strider was utterly naked and whisking through the cloads like an avenging angel. He was holding a teddy bear in one hand and a stream of pink ribbons in the other. Anya had given him the nearly life-size monstrasity as a joke. But the joke was on her. He loved the thing. Gena Showalter
wall party men
The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldnt open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldnt talk well. Gale Gordon
wall historical battle
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world. Franz Kafka
wall self dust
Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self. Franz Kafka
wall mean night
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. Franz Kafka
wall years reason
The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed. Erich Honecker
wall years statistics
The Wall will stand for a hundred years. Erich Honecker
wall integrity love-is
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. Erich Fromm
wall
Beginning of our conversation with Donald Trump, I made it very clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.
walls-have-ears woods fields
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. Geoffrey Chaucer
wall fantasy film
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs. Gary Numan
wall disappointment dark
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise. Gary Numan
wall book smell
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell. Gary Shteyngart
wall blue support
The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it. Frank Serpico
wall white paper
A white wall is the paper of a foole. George Herbert
wall cutting administration
The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction. Chris Hedges
wall mass-culture insane-world
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world. Chris Hedges
wall doors self
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all? Christina Rossetti
wall artist tears
It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of wall, to look at ourselves and examine who we are and just get deeper insights into what makes us human beings. Anything that could possibly prevent that in our near future horrifies me to no end. Christian Slater
wall race feelings
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
wall thinking smoking
I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies. Chris Hayes
wall business hangover
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments? George W. Bush
wall thinking people
You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a lot of the decisions that were made on Wall Street took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President. George W. Bush
wall taken phones
One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a-a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone. George W. Bush
wall heart law
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. George W. Bush
wall cat writing
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats. George Takei