The Wall Quotes

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

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.

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

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.

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

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

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

There's four sides to every story... If these walls could talk, they'd probably still ignore me.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church!

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

All things are possible.

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Seeing your work on the wall is like the ultimate thing that can happen.

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.

You earn your reputation by the things you do every day.

For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

An art book is a museum without walls.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.