Top 1200 Burning Bridges Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

I'm never going to be on ESPN, probably. I've burned too many bridges. That's fine.

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

I was a bit of a hot head when I was younger so I used to burn a lot of bridges.

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

Love creates bridges much more than all the engineers of the world!

Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw

Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the burning of heretics — Muslims in particular. Now, of course, I am not accusing the Attorney General of pulling out anyone's fingernails or burning people at the stake (at least I don't know of any such cases). But one does get the sense these days that the old Spaniard's spirit is comfortably at home in Ashcroft's Department of Justice.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

I think it's important for athletes to set a tone in a way that we're looking to build bridges.

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

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world.

...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

Let me be clear: It's not that I'm not a patriot because I want to keep flag-burning legal, it's that I want to keep flag-burning legal because I am a patriot.

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Bridges are happy, because they do not judge those who come to them.

Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes, and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame, and the smoke of the burning , which God, by His breath, hath kindled therein, and upon, them, which will be held one in another, to the great torment and distress of each other.

I am convinced that music, like philanthropy, bridges hope.

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Roads and bridges can't serve us if they're continually eroded by a worsening climate crisis.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi.

Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

Love creates bridges where it would seem they were impossible.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Our people need significant investments in bridges, tunnels and roads.

My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.

We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Some bridges are so beautiful that we wish them to be our own home!

The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'

Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered flags. Well, fortunately the U.S. official Flag Code has a suggestion about this. "The flag, when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning." Owwwwcchh. In response, the House Republicans are calling for tattered flags to be kept alive via a feeding tube.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

I want people to have conversations, to have controversy because it creates dialogue and builds bridges.