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Then she was terribly angry, and took him up and threw him with all her might against the wall. "Now, thou wilt be quiet, odious frog," said she. — Jacob Grimm

I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All. — Rachel Brady

The hundred nights they'd sat up arguing the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall — Cormac McCarthy

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. — Morris Bender

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other. — Larry Wall

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. — Larry Wall

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. — Maria Cantwell

When the world is mine, then you all will be the 99.9%. — Scott Jonathan Nixon

I personally keep slave documents listing the value of slaves framed on my wall in California, and in my office in Chicago. — Sue Monk Kidd

From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street. — Craig Ferguson

Do you know where Lakri is right now?" I asked Ingra as we headed inside the wall to our usual spot — Charon Lloyd-Roberts

Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right. — Damien Chazelle

When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now — Wallace Stegner

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. — Denis Healey

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall. — Deepak Chopra

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound. — John Muir

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion. — Miguel

Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest. — Gary Weiss

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall. — Daniel Radcliffe

Silo builds the wall in people's minds and creates the barrier in organizations' "hearts. — Pearl Zhu

There was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their — Arthur Conan Doyle

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall, — Angela Merkel

human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here! — Yuval Noah Harari

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall. — John Burnside

Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention. — Larry Wall

Don't be sad." She says it so warmly, it makes the air change color. "It came right through the wall last night. — Jandy Nelson

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students. — Jill Stein

Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria. — Larry Wall

I told you what I want. You under me, on top of me, against the wall, on this table, against the sofa. Maybe even on the bed. Should I continue? — Monica La Porta

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. — Zhang Xin

Sometimes the longer you are inside a prison, the harder it is to fathom what is possible beyond its walls. — Suki Kim

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn

He broke through the wall of men surrounding Olivia - dim-witted fowl clustered about a dozing crocodile, as he saw it - and offered to take her home. — Loretta Chase

A cheap, utilitarian clock hung on the wall; its secondhand clicked inconsistently - slow, fast, fast, slow - as if it were spitting out Morse code. — Anonymous

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. — Jonathan Larson

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information. — Ronald Kessler

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. — Chuck Schumer

Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall. — Dizzy Dean

I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting. — James Rosenquist

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more. — Florence Welch

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. — Kelly Miller

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare. — Jonathan Clements

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! — Che Guevara

...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall. — Ada Calhoun

The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you. — Tony Robbins

passed through her into the wall, he pissed himself. — Kresley Cole

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? — Henry Blackaby

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. — Elliott Abrams

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. — Victor Hugo

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed. — Larry Wall

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing." — William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

I am a survivor. I live beyond the wall. I give shelter to those that need it. I am not chosen but I choose to live. — Lauren Nicolle Taylor

I Believe The Failure To Punish Wall Street Criminals Is The Core Cause Of Our Sick Economy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind. — Paula Wall

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. — Frank Herbert

The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers. — Sara Teasdale

In the wall there are many doors. Be patient, search with diligence, for one will open to your key. And oh, the land beyond is very fair. — Nan Gilbert

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep. — Hattie Morahan

I'm sorry about your dad. He was a good man. He adjusted his position again so she was neatly blocked against the wall. — Liliana Hart

Yep. There's a lie on the wall of my old elementary school that only my Granddaddy and me know about... And I'm okay with that. — Sean Patrick Flanery

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me. — Jonah Books

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off. — Curtis Jackson

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. — Mahmoud Abbas

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. — Francis Quarles

Sometimes, when your back's against the wall, you can do things that you didn't know were possible. — Lisa De Jong

It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.
-Elphaba — Gregory Maguire

Lightning flickered through the windows that wouldn't release us and made monsters of our shadows against the wall. — Michelle Hodkin

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

The wall around the window does not create two worlds. — Henri Matisse

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless. — Matt Haig

When I get to Heaven they aren't going to see much of me but my heels, for I'll be hanging over the golden wall keeping an eye on the Lisu Church! — Isobel Miller Kuhn

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise. — Larry Wall

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ... — Larry Wall

When your back is against the wall, you will find it is a good place to push off. — Jeffrey Fry

She kicked the wall. In her semi-ghostly state, she found this profoundly unsatisfying. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come! — Rumi

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always. — Brahmananda Saraswati

One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed. — Cheryl McKay

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall. — RuPaul

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall. — Joseph Campbell

If anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. — John Green

swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He — Terry Pratchett

a flayed body untangled
string by string and hung
to the wall, an agonized banner
displayed for the same reason
flags are. — Margaret Atwood

Can I be your daddy now?" he asked, resting his hand on the wall behind my head and leaning in. — Maris Black

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them. — George R R Martin

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble. — Frank Quattrone

The threat made Liam smile. There was something to be said for having someone like you so much they chained you to a wall. — Lyn Gala

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed. — Ken Blanchard

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back. — Jason Robert Brown

For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain. — Lacy Danes

Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall. — Marilyn Manson

perch on the wall — Julia Golding