1,078 Quotes About Wall

  • Author Marcus Aurelius
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    Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

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  • Author Marina Abramović
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    When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

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  • Author maya angelou
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    To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

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  • Author maya angelou
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    Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

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  • Author Saul Alinsky
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    Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing -- but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

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  • Author Shaun Alexander
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    The contract stuff just happens to be a coincidence to me. I always play every game as if my back is against the wall. That's always something that has been good to me since high school. A lot of people believe the grass is greener on the other side, but I'm not one of those people. It wouldn't be my choice to leave, but the Seahawks know that.

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  • Author Sherman Alexie
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    But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

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  • Author Steve Albini
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    Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

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