F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Running Quotes, Wall Quotes

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Children Quotes , Wall Quotes

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

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I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours.

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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

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If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Wall Quotes , Mean Quotes

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wall Quotes , Fall Quotes

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Family Quotes , Wall Quotes

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Wall Quotes , Blue Quotes

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Wall Quotes , Dirty Quotes

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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The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

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Tags : Alan Bersin Quotes , Wall Quotes , People Quotes

Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Wall Quotes , House Quotes

It is the wall of separation between church and state . . . that is largely responsible for religion thriving in this country, as compared to those European countries in which church and state have been united, resulting in opposition to the church by those who disapprove of the government.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Country Quotes , Wall Quotes

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wall Quotes , Done Quotes