Bridges Quotes - Page 10

• It is a good habit to thank always the bridge which takes you to the other side or to mention the name of the bridge or to take the photo of it or to repair it if you can! In short, do something good for those who do goodness for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Names, Sides, Habit

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• When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.

  Widad Akrawi

  Practice, Skills, Desire

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• It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.

  Rick Steves

  Country, Travel, Wall

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• We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.

  David Krieger

  Wall, Creating, Giving

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• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  Wes Nisker

  Spiritual, Crazy, Expression

  Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”

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• Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
  and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
  a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
  is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
  free.

  Ted Loder

  Laughter, Prayer, Fun

  Ted Loder (2004). “Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger”, p.73, Augsburg Books

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• The people of America are red, white, black, yellow, and all the shades in between. Their eyes are blue, black, and brown, and all the shades in between. Their hair is straight, curly, kinky, and most of it in between. They are tall and short, slim and fat, athletic and anaemic, and most of them in between. They are the different peoples of the world becoming more and more the "in between." They are a people creating a new bridge of mankind in between the past of narrow nationalistic chauvinism and the horizon of a new mankind--a people of the world. Their face is the face of the future.

  Saul Alinsky

  Eye, Past, Yellow

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.3, Vintage

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• There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Simple, People, Together

  J. M. Coetzee (1997). “What is realism?”, Bennington College Bookstore

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• Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

  Jim Rohn

  Language, Impress

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• In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and men - together, to nurture freedom and dialogue, to create new bridges of respect and understanding, for greater tolerance and cooperation.

  Irina Bokova

  Men, People, Tolerance

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• Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

  Alan Watts

  Practice, Breathing, Meditation

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.71, New World Library

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

  Gregory David Roberts

  Water, Promise, Politician

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• People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

  Franz Kafka

  Moving, Dark, Past

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• Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

  Ben Barnes

  Actors, My Favorite

  "EXCLUSIVE: Ben Barnes Talks Killing Bono". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. November 1, 2011.

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• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

  George Herbert

  Forgiveness, Heaven, Forgiving

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• I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

  Ricky Martin

  Philanthropy, Convinced

  "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

  John Knowles

  Fighting, Land, Looks

  John Knowles (1983). “A stolen past”, Henry Holt & Co

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• We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental and spiritual health may be nurtured. Our schooling must not only teach us how to bridge the Niagara River gorge, or the Golden Gate, but must teach us how to bridge the deep gaps of misunderstanding and hate and discord in the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Spiritual, Hate, Home

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

  Maya Angelou

  Birthday, Inspiring, Thanksgiving

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 29, 2013

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• There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

  Paul Krugman

  Magic, Tanks, Bombs

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Long, Water

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Suffering, Use

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• ... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.

  Robert Musil

  Children, Ocean, Play

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• The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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