Walled Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use. — Jamais Cascio
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. — Aldous Huxley
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's… — Margaret Atwood
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth… — Mervyn Peake
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to… — Steven Pinker
Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels… — Wilfred Owen
THE BAD THING ABOUT FEAR Is it requires a reaction. Some hide. Some cry. But, like a dog condemned to a walled yard with no… — Ellen Hopkins
I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled… — Diana Gabaldon
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time,… — Beryl Markham
You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself… — Nora Roberts
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and… — Rick Bragg
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all… — Mahatma Gandhi
Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the… — Paula McLain
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. — Robin Sloan
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and… — P.J. O'Rourke
An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you… — Nimrat Kaur
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to… — Craig Brown
Nearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is… — John Battelle
The glorified will not be pilgrims, transient visitors, or tenants at will, but settled, permanent, walled, established by title, through eternity by warrantee deed, signed,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all… — Mahatma Gandhi

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