Fence Quotes - Page 5

• When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

  Dolly Parton

  Decision, Definite

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• We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

  Georges Bataille

  Kids, Sky, Trying

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• Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Thinking, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides

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• The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

  Robert Ardrey

  Dog, Masters, Motive

  Robert Ardrey (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”

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• Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

  Chuck Eddy

  Growing Up, Divorce, White

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press

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• Better guide the young than reclaim them when old For the voice of true wisdom is calling "To rescue the fallen is good, but tis best To prevent other people from falling" Better close up the source of temptation and crime Than deliver from dungeon or gallery Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff Than an ambulance down in the valley.

  Joseph Malins

  Strong, Fall, Voice

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• There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, People, Used

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• If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

  William L. McKnight

  Inspirational, Creativity, Sheep

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• Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.

  Sven Birkerts

  Dream, Reading, Book

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.168, Macmillan

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• The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

  Henri Rousseau

  Real, Believe, Simple

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• I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.

  David Ortiz

  Running, Home, Swings

  Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. June 8, 2012.

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• But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Commitment, Garden, Goats

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

  Bob Goff

  Swings, Dust, Screw Ups

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You think, as you walk away from Le Cirque des Rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Thinking, Dawn

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Aug 02, 2014

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• I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Rivers, Spiders

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• If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

  Debbie Macomber

  Envy, Water, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

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• If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

  Ronee Blakley

  Fall, Feet, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sheep, Safety

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

  Jason Giambi

  Inspirational, Winning, What Matters

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• The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

  Emmylou Harris

  Horse, Way, Best Way

  Interview with Stacey D’Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Horse, Past

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.93, Counterpoint Press

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• Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

  Richard Engel

  Wall, Soothing

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• It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.

  Ray Lyman Wilbur

  Animal, Knives, Bird

  "Ray Lyman Wilbur". The Washington Post, June 28, 1949.

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• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  Calvin Harris

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt that there could be some anger. There could be some frustration that he has the tendency to take over the room, but I wanted all of those things to show in the grays of her hair and the fact that her hips are much wider than they probably were when she met him. I wanted it to show in the fact that her hair is not done up all the time. I wanted it to be a part of that every day that wasn't in your face. Because then for me, that's overacting. To me, that's not "being." I wanted Rose [in "Fences"] to be many things.

  Viola Davis

  Frustration, Hair, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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