Quotes about wall
wall accepting consequence
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. Fyodor Dostoevsky
wall moving heart
I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.
wall religion atmosphere
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere. Friedrich Nietzsche
wall fall limits
Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. Jeanette Winterson
wall real hands
Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.
wall fall should
It is the nature of walls that they should fall.
wall home thinking
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.
wall fall should
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
wall important needs
There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall. Jeb Bush
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
wall cat writing
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats. George Takei
wall book winter
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand. George Steiner
wall assuming streets
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. George Soros
wall years dating
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists. George Orwell
wall lying heart
It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.
wall blind fats
Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind. George R. R. Martin
wall
Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.
wall drunk wonder
I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?