Fence Quotes - Page 4

• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rags, Littles, Fluttering

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

  Unknown

  Memories, Protect, Friendship Memories

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• [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Intelligent, Thinking, Going Away

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• Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

  Tom Brady

  White, Needs, Culture

  "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.

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• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Life, Change, Mistake

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• Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dream, Inspiration, Made

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• I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.

  Viola Davis

  Rose, House, Joy

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Home, Heart, Reality

  Joseph Conrad, Robert Kimbrough (1963). “Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, ess ays in criticism”

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• The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Justice, Lines

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1964). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: Human destiny”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

  Ken Harrelson

  Leadership, Baseball, Running

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• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  Sam Shepard

  Sides, Breeding, Obvious

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• Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

  Silvan Shalom

  Suicide, Numbers, Bombers

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• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Hands, Scratches, Opinion

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise'" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.

  Jerry Vines

  Tears, Needs, Purpose

  SBC Today Interview, sbctoday.com. January 24, 2012.

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

  Phillip Noyce

  Country, Australia, Wire

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• In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

  Dan Miller

  Thinking, Alaska, Working Together

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• Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Humanity

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• There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

  Mary of Teck

  Wish, Done, One Thing

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• I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sides

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.

  Morgan Freeman

  Sides

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  I Love You More, Fire, Darkness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

  Denis Leary

  Political, Trying, Want

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• Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

  Jimmy Carter

  Community, Borders, Boundaries

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• Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Coward, Wire

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