Barack Obama Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Wall Quotes

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

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As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder. You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.

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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

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Willows whiten, aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver, thro' the wave that runs forever by the island in the river, flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls and four gray towers, overlook a space of flowers, and the silent isle imbowers, the Lady of Shalott.

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Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

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One might as well try to charge through a wall.

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Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."

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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

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Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

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We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

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And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Broken Heart Quotes , Wall Quotes

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

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