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Image of William O. Douglas
The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.
- William O. Douglas
Collection: Wall
Image of Sarah Michelle Gellar
I try never to say no when it comes to creativity, but I do try and lead down an "appropriate road" - like not on furniture or the walls.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Collection: Wall
Image of Edward Gibbon
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: Wall
Image of Chinua Achebe
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
- Chinua Achebe
Collection: Wall
Image of Jeff Foxworthy
If you have more fish on your wall than pictures, you might be a redneck.
- Jeff Foxworthy
Collection: Wall
Image of Graham Greene
Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.
- Graham Greene
Collection: Wall
Image of Milton Friedman
The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Wall
Image of Milton Friedman
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Wall
Image of Arthur Ashe
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
- Arthur Ashe
Collection: Wall
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Wall
Image of Neil Gaiman
The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Wall
Image of Che Guevara
A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].
- Che Guevara
Collection: Wall
Image of Dave Grohl
A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.
- Dave Grohl
Collection: Wall
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Wall
Image of Josh Groban
I think some industries are so far behind the rest of humanity, in the way they see characters and cast shows. Once those walls get broken down, it changes everything.
- Josh Groban
Collection: Wall
Image of James Frey
This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.
- James Frey
Collection: Wall
Image of Khalil Gibran
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Wall
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Wall
Image of Janet Frame
Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.
- Janet Frame
Collection: Wall
Image of Jeff Foxworthy
You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.
- Jeff Foxworthy
Collection: Wall
Image of Jeff Foxworthy
You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.
- Jeff Foxworthy
Collection: Wall
Image of Nikolai Gogol
I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
- Nikolai Gogol
Collection: Wall
Image of Suzy Kassem
Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.
- Suzy Kassem
Collection: Wall
Image of E. M. Forster
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
- E. M. Forster
Collection: Wall
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Collection: Wall
Image of David Gemmell
One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.
- David Gemmell
Collection: Wall
Image of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Collection: Wall
Image of Justin Vernon
I want to be able to write on my walls. I think that's the big thing.
- Justin Vernon
Collection: Wall
Image of Natalie Goldberg
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
- Natalie Goldberg
Collection: Wall
Image of Craig Stone
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.
- Craig Stone
Collection: Wall
Image of John Green
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.
- John Green
Collection: Wall
Image of Che Guevara
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
- Che Guevara
Collection: Wall
Image of Suzy Kassem
A good leader does not tell people to stand behind him. That position does not give anybody power but the leader. Today's politician isn't going to be the first marching to war, so why put that guy in front? Instead, a good leader tells people to stand beside him. That creates an invincible wall of people, and that's a force where everybody stands as a true equal.
- Suzy Kassem
Collection: Wall
Image of Newt Gingrich
We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it forecloses on Florida and is himself a stockholder in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together to understand what this is all about.... People matter more than Wall Street.
- Newt Gingrich
Collection: Wall
Image of Frank Gehry
People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.
- Frank Gehry
Collection: Wall
Image of Aristophanes
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
- Aristophanes
Collection: Wall
Image of Seth Godin
I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Wall
Image of Thomas Boston
O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as unconcerned as the very stones of the wall; and say what thou wilt, either by setting before them alluring promises or dreadful threatenings, yet people are hardened against both, none relenting for what they have done, or concerned about it.
- Thomas Boston
Collection: Wall
Image of Che Guevara
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.
- Che Guevara
Collection: Wall
Image of Che Guevara
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.
- Che Guevara
Collection: Wall
Image of Pope Francis
Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Wall
Image of Edward Gibbon
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than the walls, the bolts, and the eunuchs of a persian harem. To this reason, another may be added of a more honourable nature. The Germans treated their women with esteem and confidence, consulted them on every occasion of importance, and fondly believed that in their breasts resided a sanctity and wisdom more than human.
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: Wall
Image of Vincent Van Gogh
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Collection: Wall
Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Collection: Wall
Image of Timothy Garton Ash
As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.
- Timothy Garton Ash
Collection: Wall
Image of Timothy Garton Ash
It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.
- Timothy Garton Ash
Collection: Wall
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Wall
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Wall
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Wall