Wall Quotes - Page 26

• The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Law, Forever

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Real, Past, Circles

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.221, Northwestern University Press

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• It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Emotional

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Ignorance, Past, Wind

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• I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

  Ntozake Shange

  Want, Terrible, Feels

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• Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

  Storm Jameson

  Humanity, Language, Century

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.24, A&C Black

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• Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Eye, Shadow

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• When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

  Anita Roddick

  Creative Juices, Flow, Creative

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Heart

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• Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

  Audre Lorde

  Guilt, Bricks, Our Future

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.124, Crossing Press

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• Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

  Tony Fadell

  Hate, Alarms, Batteries

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• I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.

  Jay Gould

  Sports, Horse, Children

  "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.

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• Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?

  Amy Sedaris

  Looks, Framed, Artwork

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• I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

  Ethel Waters

  Psychics, Rooms, Talk To Me

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Moving, Feet

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• I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

  Michael Meacher

  Thinking, Race, Suffering

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Names, America

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• Never put sofas against wall.

  Robert Denning

  Sofas

  "The Sweet Smell of Excess" by Patricia Volk, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2006.

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• Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.

  Suzanne Massie

  Pain, Glasses, Sight

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place called Xingwuying, locals climbed the Great Wall whenever they wanted to receive a cell phone signal.

  Peter Hessler

  Phones, Cells, Computer

  Peter Hessler (2010). “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip”, p.94, Canongate Books

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• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  Safra A. Catz

  Independent, Law, Decision

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• Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

  Zelda Popkin

  Opportunity, Doors, Blank

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• The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Crazy, Order, House

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• sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

  Karin Slaughter

  Twenties, Cockroaches, Predator

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• Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Winter, Popcorn, Poverty

  Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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