Quotes with walls

Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.

  • Barbara Amiel Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Bill Drayton Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Barbara Amiel Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Joseph Fort Newton People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Richard Lovelace Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Bernard De Voto The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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  • Bruce Forsyth The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Aldous Huxley The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Eduardo Galeano The walls are the publishers of the poor.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Jim Rohn The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Amiel There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Josh Billings Those who enter heaven may find the outer walls plastered with creeds, but they won't find any on the inside.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Beck Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Angela Davis Walls turned sideways are bridges.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • John Donne We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We build too many walls around us and not enough bridges into the lives of others.
    The One Great Church: Adventures of Faith (1948)
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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