Quotes About Barrier

Well that's because I wasn't always like this.' Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. 'I built a wall around myself.

I don't get attached… There's no place for it in my world.

You!" I said, relishing the moment. "Shall not! Pass!

The demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen barrier, hurling its chitinous shoulders from side to side in an effort to escape the confinement. It couldn't. I kept my will on the circle, kept the demon from bursting free. Satisfied, Chauncy? I asked it. The demon straightened its hideous form and said, in a perfect Oxford accent, Quite. You understand, I must observe the formalities.

It was always easier to demolish something than to create it.

The language I wanted from him did not exist in his world.

Gandhi on Nonviolence, Louis Fischer's Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Jerome Frank's Breaking the Thought Barrier, Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom and Think on These Things, C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, Huxley's Ends and Means, and Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media.

A lock is only as good as the door.

No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. Even when people try to comfort you, you're aware that now there is a barrier between you and them, made of the horrible thing that happened, that keeps you isolated.

My English is very bad.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

she, too, lived behind a brick wall, only hers was cleverly hidden behind a bright smile and effervescent personality.

The people who hate us can't see through the wall.

The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky.

For every solution, a problem.

The shadows of the tombstones in the graveyard stretched out long and violet, and the sound of the flies buzzed in my ears, louder than the ringing of the shots that still came—were coming closer—to the frail barrier of the dead.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.

I really want to fight Ronda. The problem is, I can't drop to 135.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.