The Wall Quotes

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that.' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I know many members of our community steer clear of Wall Street because of the perception that the stock market is risky, but I am convinced the biggest risk of all is not taking one.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.

Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.