#cross

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#merely #sea #standing #staring #water

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe. ↗

— Jim Talent

#commitment #extended #freedom #generation #generations

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #constantly #heard #i #i think

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#comes #cross #music #out #planned

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. ↗

— Max Baer

#define #early #fear #go #go home

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#baseball #baseball game #becomes #between #blur

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#always #become #before #choices #crossroads

There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#because #bill #bill gates #cure #gates

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#crosses #everyone #i #me #mean

Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#back #being #border #credit #crossed