Crossings Quotes - Page 12

• And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Beautiful, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Beyond”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Drawing

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Rope

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

  Dan Simmons

  Time, Memories, Weekend

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  Mal Peet

  Waiting, Liquor Stores, Bars

  8 Copy quote

• When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Men, Ruling

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Children, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.

  Douglas Booth

  Eye, Fire, Sea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Children, Fall, Order

  "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (p. 175), 1994.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Crossing barriers can be as simple as a smile.

  Ron Kaufman

  Simple, Service Culture, Barriers

  4 Copy quote

• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Boys, Yield

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

  4 Copy quote

• In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

  Adam Hochschild

  Determination, Years, Two

  7 Copy quote

• Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Business, Humor

  10 Copy quote

• A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

  Christopher Morley

  Religion, Railroads, Gongs

  6 Copy quote

• For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

  Eric Williams

  Ohio, Church, Lines

  7 Copy quote

• Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

  Steve Allen

  Laughter, Eye, Arms

  Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Karl Lagerfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

  Sam Keen

  Best Practices, Advice, Railroads

  Source: www.spiritualityandpractice.com

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.419

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Rivers, Perfect

  10 Copy quote

• The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.

  Raul Garcia

  Country, People, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lawyers-they get together all day and say to each other, "What can we postpone next?" The only thing they don't postpone, of course, is their bill, which arrives regularly. You've heard about the man who got the bill from his lawyer which said, "For crossing the street to speak to you and discovering it was not you, twelve dollars."

  George S. Kaufman

  Men, Together, Bills

  25 Copy quote

• Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Country, Overcoming, Three

  5 Copy quote

• Courage is crossing a starting line.

  Amby Burfoot

  Lines, Starting

  8 Copy quote