(344 quotes found)
“We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations”
Stephen R. Covey
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.”
Walter Benjamin
“The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale”
Thomas Paine
“I am the kind of person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.”
Angelina Jolie
“Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.”
William S. Gilbert
“Good evening Mr and Mrs America, from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.”
Walter Winchell
“More than 3 million square miles of territory to protect, 10 thousand miles of border to guard and a fence to build 10, 11 or 12 miles high. It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.”
Gen Ben Chidlaw
“If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?”
Ann Coulter
“Peace never respects borders”
Loesje
“[He had] a cheekiness bordering at times on nail-file abrasive.”
A. M. Sperber