Walled Quotes
42 quotes by 40 authors
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I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind…
— Jennifer Aniston
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The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the…
— Malcolm X
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the…
— Sun Tzu
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Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and…
— Charlie Cook
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This is a beautiful time, this last age, the age of the Holy Spirit... He is crying to every soul that is walled: Open to…
— Jessica Powers
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When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits…
— Herman Melville
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In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and…
— Arthur Koestler
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For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't…
— Mark Steyn
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When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of…
— Roger Williams
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Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I
— Genghis Khan
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Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or…
— Francis Quarles
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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,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Being dead is being weak and walled off.
— Richard McKenna
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It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one…
— Orhan Pamuk
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All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the…
— Janet Napolitano
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Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
— David Rusenko
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We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
— H. L. Mencken
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many…
— Beverley Nichols
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Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are…
— Theodore Roosevelt
Who Wrote These Walled Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 42 Walled Quotes, led by these top contributors: