Quotes About Crossing

For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich—Which is something between a large bathing machine and a very small second-class carriage.

There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: pedestrian-traffic residue.

The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go. In the end, what matters isn't crossing the finish line before anybody else but just making sure that you do cross it.

The best advice I have is, actually present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. Cross illegally and get arrested, and your children will be given to us. That's the simple fact, I'm afraid.

Because his mother never met a boundary she didn't want to cross.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

I've now spent almost a full year of the last two years of my life in London, and I still have to think really, really hard before I cross the street. There are too many instincts fighting each other, and I don't want to die.

I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.

The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.

Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man's-land is yes-man's-land.

ferried across

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

Like two straight lines overlapping, we momentarily crossed at a certain point, then went our separate ways.

The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.

But digging up the roots of chaos is like saying it's not the moment the car hits you that's important, or the split second when you step off the curb without looking. You can argue that as soon as you stopped checking when you crossed the street, that's when the trouble really began. The moment of impact is what you remember, however. That breathless instant of screech and thud, the second when the car hits and all other futures are canceled.

My sincere advice to any citizen considering moving to the United States and crossing our boundaries in irregular migration, my best advice is to not do it.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

He was bitten with the bug. His curiosity was turning. His desire was outpacing his satisfaction. He'd gone to the Crossing because he was tired of not knowing. Well, now he knew, all right. The only question was, How much knowledge would suffice? And for how long?

The captain said that crossing from Liverpool to Dublin is often more difficult than the entire passage from the West Indies to England.

house at Otowi Bridge.

Do the thousands of 'cross-bucks' at railroad crossings across our nation memorialize any exchange of 'dollars'?

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.

There is a line. It's etched from dignity. And raging, fearful people from the right and left are crossing it at unprecedented rates every single day. We must never tolerate dehumanization—the primary instrument of violence that has been used in every genocide recorded throughout history.