Wall Quotes - Page 11

• The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fire, Air, Hinduism

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• May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Happiness, Christmas, Laughter

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• We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.

  David Krieger

  Bridges, Creating, Giving

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• With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Relationship, Bridges, People

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• I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

  Anson Mount

  Military, Years, Grandfather

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Running, Flip, Impressive

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• My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

  Debbie Macomber

  Children, Names, Office

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• I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

  Justin Zackham

  Pyramids, Obsessed, Notion

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• One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

  Justin Zackham

  Ideas, One Day, Buckets

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• We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

  Roger Ebert

  Space, Window, Boxes

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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• I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.

  Brian J. White

  Jobs, Athlete, Ivy

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• I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

  Bill Ayers

  Book, Air, Deliverance

  William Ayers (2009). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.25, Beacon Press

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• I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

  Kevin Durant

  Style, Stuff, Standing Out

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Mirrors, Diversity, Soul

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• It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, United States, Doe

  "'A Massive Surveillance State': Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 07, 2013.

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• I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baby, Monsters, Fans

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• I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.

  Tana French

  Heart, Night, Men

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• The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

  Charlie Pierce

  Shadow, Monsters, Conservative

  "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

  Rachel Hartman

  Lying, Cities, Belief

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• When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

  Philip Yancey

  Suffering, World, Doe

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

  Richard Bode

  Men, Songbirds, Exotic Places

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• There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  David Harvey

  Differences, Political, Occupy Movement

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• If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

  David Harvey

  Political, Collaboration, Occupy Movement

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• You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

  Dom Starsia

  Sports, Team, Player

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• Prayer and humility, along with a hatred for sin, produces a ‘mind to work.’ ‘So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work’ (Nehemiah 4:6). True revivals of holiness always produce workers. Books and seminars and lectures don’t—but revival does!

  David Wilkerson

  Prayer, Book, Humility

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