#walls

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. ↗

— Paul Simon

#prophets #silence #sounds #subway #tenements

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#crater #exposed #eyes #opened #our

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#back #building #career #code #could

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#going #i #inside #lady #lonely

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming. ↗

— Beatrice Dalle

#because #been #building #burnt #charged

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

#corners #depth #expanse #explore #fences

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belongs #boldly #building #engage #fact

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dam #love #trickle #truth #walls

Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #love