Wall Quotes - Page 28

• I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.

  Bernie Sanders

  President, Deregulation, Clinton

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.

  Moby

  Fall, East Berlin, Down And

  "Giorgio Moroder". Interview with Moby, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  America, Want, Bread

  On visiting Pittsburgh's Polish - Czech area. Quoted in Alistair Cooke The Americans (1980).

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• The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Rebel, Oneself

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.27, Vintage

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• Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Politics, Life Is

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• You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.

  Hank Aaron

  Home, Player, Two

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• There isn't a single government agency that can't function. There's more money in this federal government, there's more money allocated than these people can possibly spend. They have to concoct asinine ways to spend it, like advertising for new food stamp users. I've gotten to the point, I'm just so righteously indignant and offended at the very idea that our government could ever run out of money when we've got a printing press, for crying out loud. Printed three and a half trillion dollars over seven years and flooded Wall Street with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Years, Ideas

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• In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Discovery, Wheels, Wonder

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

  Robert Reich

  Teacher, Important, Tiny

  "Robert Reich Sounds Off On How America Has Failed Its Students". Interview with Danny Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2015.

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• Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

  John French Sloan

  Couple, Mistake, May

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• I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Trying, Movement, Structure

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• A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere. When I walk to the little market a few blocks away, it feels like a test of endurance.

  Henri Cole

  Block, Car, Snow

  "A Plague of Snow" by Henri Cole, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2015.

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• Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls.

  Suki Kim

  Sometimes, Prison, Fathom

  Suki Kim (2014). “Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite”, p.44, Crown

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• It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

  Willa Cather

  Failure, Cutting, Distraction

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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• When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Community, Church

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.103

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• I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Cat, Hands

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

  William Blake

  Brother, Children, Two

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

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• All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Deeds, Ornaments

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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• Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Loneliness, Race, Class

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Light, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Singing, Arms

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  Amy Lowell

  Passion, Heart, Wings

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.

  Amy Lowell

  Gay, Soldier, Red

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.

  Robertson Davies

  Laughter, Voice, Oasis

  "Lew Fields". 1941.

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• Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sight, People, Broken

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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