Bridges Quotes - Page 22

• And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

  Hart Crane

  Beautiful, Journey, Hands

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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• It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

  John Zerzan

  Fall, Fullness Of Life, Knowing

  John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”

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• Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

  Matsuo Basho

  Life, Creepers

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• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Sex, Mouths

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• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wisdom, Passion, Fire

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• The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Years, White

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• Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals.

  Greg Graffin

  Creativity, Independent, Unique

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• The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Meditation, World

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• Allyson Smith reminds me of a younger, prettier, funnier me. Now if you'll excuse me, the ladies from my bridge club have arrived.

  Stewart Francis

  Clubs, Excuse, Ifs

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• The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

  Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

  Believe, Ignorance, Civilization

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• Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

  Jim Capaldi

  Giving, Shapes, Rhyming

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• Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Skills, Discovery

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• By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.

  Chris Baines

  Home, Heart, Past

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• I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

  Ilie Nastase

  Tennis, Devil, Nasty

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• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Oil, Next, Climate

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• Widely spaced earth-sheltered towns offer sweeping views over the plains. High-speed trains link the communities. Food is grown in the region. Bikeways are everywhere. Nonpolluting hydrogen powers all vehicles. Sunlight and wind generate the hydrogen. Note the earth-covered bridges, the continuous window bands, the wind machines across the farmlands. In this new America, everything is reused, recycled, conserved.

  Malcolm Wells

  Views, Wind, America

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• The relationship is the communication bridge between people.

  Alfred Kadushin

  Communication, People, Dialogue

  Alfred Kadushin, Professor Alfred Kadushin, Goldie Kadushin (2013). “The Social Work Interview”, p.82, Columbia University Press

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• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Believe, Self, Nine

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• He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

  Thomas Adams

  Positive, Demand, Ruins

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• Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.

  Bruce Catton

  History, Scrapbooking, Mystery

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• Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

  Elliott Smith

  Beautiful, Burning, Chaos

  Song: Let's Get Lost, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thought—he is one with it—and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore.

  Michael Dorris

  Son, Night, Men

  The Broken Cord ch. 14 (1989)

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• Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

  Elif Safak

  Cities, Appreciate, Trying

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• Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity.
  It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

  James Altucher

  Grateful, Creativity, Compassion

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