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Bridges Quotes - Page 38

We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce

We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

Andrew Sullivan
War, Government, Bridges

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Anatole France
Sleep, Law, Bridges

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Amy Waldman
Bridges, Bats

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

Amelia Barr
Sweet, Men, Bridges
Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.386, Litres

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
Character, Bridges, Careers
Source: collider.com

One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group that would never usually meet. You know, like bridging the comedy/drama world that for some reason casting directors never really want to bridge or you get into one community and that's kind of it.

Alison Pill
Drama, Bridges, Community
Source: collider.com

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bridges, Cities, Watches
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

Al Smith
Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, Together

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

Al Lewis
Sleep, Bridges, Oscars

I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.

Adrienne Rich
Thinking, Bridges, Space
Source: criticalflame.org

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

Adam Carolla
Bridges, Done, Built

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

Aberjhani
Dream, Bridges, Wings
Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

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