Crossings Quotes - Page 3

• The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

  Brownie Wise

  Running, Ocean, Water

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• Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Rocks, Stories

  Ann Beattie (2011). “The New Yorker Stories”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

  Amitava Kumar

  Powerful, Hands, Invisible Hand

  Amitava Kumar (2000). “Passport Photos”, p.219, Univ of California Press

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• If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Judging, Matter, Delaware

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.149, One World

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• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Years, Dmt

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• Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

  Jim Rohn

  Riches, Wealth, Fingers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 29, 2016

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• What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

  Anatole France

  Climbing, Bridges, Rivers

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• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

  John Ruskin

  Dust, Cities, Giving

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  Xi Jinping

  Party, Sea, Iron

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• You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Fighting, Challenges, Done

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Sep 22, 2012

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• Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Distance, Ocean, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1794, Manonmani Publishers

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• Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

  Denise Scott Brown

  People, Planning, Architecture

  Interview with Andrea Tamas, www.archdaily.com. August 2009.

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• Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Color, Years

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• Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Writing

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• But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

  Seth Godin

  Writing, Talking, Eggs

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• This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Freedom, Flying, Gold

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• Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

  Donald McGavran

  Christian, Men, Class

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• Yes! We finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the public by companies like Enron, Global Crossing, and Tyco we finally got the ring leader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.

  Jon Stewart

  Leader, Fraud, Terror

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• The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Suicide, Argument, Guinea

  Review in the Daily News on October 17, 1871. "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley". Book edited by Leonard Huxley, Volume 1, p. 452, 1900.

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• I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again.

  Ann Voskamp

  Strong, Stress, Believe

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• ... I think the idea of crossing over is the ultimate expression of being ... Maybe it's time to play rock and roll on disco ... maybe it's time to play heavy metal on R & B, things like that. Certainly culminating on things like Aerosmith doing the rap thing with Run DMC, which if they hadn't done that, or if Eddie hadn't played with Michael Jackson, or if I hadn't done "Hot Stuff", people would have said "You can't do that"

  Jeff Baxter

  Music, Running, Rap

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• Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

  Buck Rodgers

  Courage, Long, Agility

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• I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Fate, People

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• Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Knowing, Boat

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• Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Twilight, Sky, Snow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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