Bridges Quotes
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We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.
Tommy Franks -
Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
Ernest Hemingway
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If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.
Van Jones -
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'
David Keirsey -
We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
Richard L. Evans -
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.
J. P. Morgan -
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
Adolf Hitler -
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
Todd Solondz
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — Twenty bridges or twenty two — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
Rudyard Kipling -
Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.
Steve Kroft -
How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Yes, burn your bridges.
Bette Davis -
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle -
The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.
Craig Fugate
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Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
William Arthur Ward -
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.
Elise M. Boulding -
Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.
Vladimir Putin -
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.
Sigourney Weaver -
He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.
Susan Vreeland -
We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw.
Eboo Patel
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I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.
Wanda Koop -
I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.
Michael Musto -
My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
Henry Louis Gates -
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
Eugene Chadbourne