Quotes about wall

That challenge you have right now...it’s not a wall it’s a door. It's meant to be opened. Get a handle on the situation and open it.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Faith is a fortified wall.

If you build a wall they won't come.

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

Success is for those that presses on when they see a wall, find ways around a road block and consistently push boundaries and conquer territories against all odds.

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird’s wing beating, the world seems unreal.

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure.

out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just atemporary fix—until you’re forced to come face to face with what you’ve been running from. That’s whenthe mental walls you’ve built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow.

When that little clock on my wall says “Olaotan! Olaotan!! Olaotan!!! It’s half past time to write”, I only have three things at my disposal: A pen, A piece of paper, and a crowded mind.

I'm trapped behind a wall of fear and fear itself.

Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the warden of prison that I created in which I myself am the prisoner?

When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting!

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Not every wall needs a ceiling

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile?

Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable.

Can a broken cisterns hold water?

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath.

I tell you once and for all—in front of the angel pictures on the wall, that I am not a host to load-bearing ghosts or headyentities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen farinto the dense atmosphere of the living.

There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

Life is one wall which stay in front of you as much you push as more stronger it gets. Sometimes you can pass it others not and in most cases from so many pushes you get injured badly and you die!

I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.

Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it.