Bridges Quote by James G. Stavridis Download Open image “Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.” — James G. Stavridis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bridges Building Building walls Cybersecurity Election Election day Inspiration Motivation Needs Political Security Wall
In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all… — Robert Benchley Copy Share
The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For… — Anonymous Copy Share
When you walk, try to think nothing! You can then obtain the silence of a streetlight or a bridge; stop thinking; after that, you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image