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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.
I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.
I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
The president of Mexico, or the ex-president, or whatever, whoever, who cares, he said, we will not even consider paying for the wall.
When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
You may build walls in my path, but I will knock them down. then all your hard work only made me stronger, and all you have is gravel.
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.
My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.
We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
I have this little plaque that my husband hung on our wall at home. It says, 'If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough.'
Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.
I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers
Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."
The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
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.
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'
I play the drums, I love to sing. I'll make a beat anywhere - on the wall, on the floor - and I can have fun doing just about anything.
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.
On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.
I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street...