Walls Quotes
1289 Walls quotes by 950 unique authors
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I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see…
— Kristen Stewart
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Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously…
— Marianne Williamson
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I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine.
— Randy Wayne
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You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Being fearless means busting down those walls of fear and being who you are, not who someone else thinks you are. People like to put…
— Mariska Hargitay
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In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.
— Pharrell Williams
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We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in…
— Roger Ebert
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For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city…
— Bettany Hughes
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In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the…
— David Hockney
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The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients…
— Albert Hadley
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The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people…
— Yasser Arafat
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I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for…
— Tadao Ando
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The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
— Yasser Arafat
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Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
— Olive Schreiner
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from…
— Curt Schilling
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of…
— Zadie Smith
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their…
— Alcaeus
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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
— William Blake
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My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He…
— Edward Abbey
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but…
— Aristophanes
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Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down,
— George H. W. Bush
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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
— George Eliot
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