A Quote by e. e. cummings

great men burn bridges before they come to them

e. e. cummings

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e. e. cummings
American - Poet
October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

Clayton Rawson

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

Richard L. Evans

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Gene Brown

There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

Dale Dauten

Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to reduce the likelihood of war and famine; bridges to avoid our selectively chosen suicide; bridges to change at least a part of energy infrastructure and consumption; bridges to becoming something better than we are or have been; bridges to non-violence. Those bridges are effectively gone.

Michael Ruppert

Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

J. Cole

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Oprah Winfrey

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

Charlie Baker

You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.

Amanda Schull

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

Laurie Anderson

Yes, burn your bridges.

Bette Davis

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"