Top 1200 Burning Bridges Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

But professionally I've never felt as strongly about a project, with the exception of 'The Bridges of Madison County', as 'The Light in the Piazza'.

Leaking tunnels, congested roads, rusting bridges, and aging railways often mean one thing: lost opportunity from delays and cancellations.

I always liked 'The Last American Hero,' the one about Junior Johnson with Jeff Bridges in it.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

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

There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

When I was nine years old, I was in a movie called, 'Landlord' with Pearl Bailey, Lou Gossett, and Beau Bridges.

I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.

I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day.

New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

burning with curiosity

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

Burning is no answer.

Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.

Our roads and bridges form the essence of interstate commerce in this country and have for some time.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.

Fly ash helps create longer-lasting and stronger concrete for use in roads, bridges, runways, and rail transit.

Vogue has always loved the design and structure of bridges and she loves Albert Bridge, which we live right next to.

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of those who died on 11 September.

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that's why being cognizant of our histories is important.

Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.

I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.