Quote by Margaret Atwood Download Open image ““A wall that cannot be defended is no sooner built than ended.”” — Margaret Atwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When you build a wall to protect yourself against one person be warned--everyone is now out there except for you.” — Nakia R. Laushaul Copy Share Image
“No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.” — Eishes Chayil Copy Share Image
“You can’t win a war sitting behind a wall and hoping the enemy decides to leave.” — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people put walls up to see who is strong enough to break them down!” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it. — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
“Guymar pushed past his hesitation, said, ‘Our walls can withstand anything, but they’ll block the arrival of our reinforcements.’ He” — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“Some walls need to be taken down, to get to a resolution. But other walls... those walls have to stay up to protect us.” — Carian Cole Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the… — margaret atwood Copy Share Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
