Collapsed Bridge Quotes

#1. William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Johan Huizinga

#2. I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Pablo Picasso

#3. I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

Priyanka Chopra

#4. How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

John Locke

#5. He was so close to me in that moment, too close, but I had never pushed a guy away for that. If anything I pulled them nearer, taking them in, as I did now, sure in my belief that knowing me that well would easily be enough to scare them away.

Sarah Dessen

#6. I'm not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don't take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. It felt as if they'd crossed a bridge a second before it collapsed.

Lauren Groff

#8. Her instincts were valid, another instinct told her.

V.S. Kemanis

#9. For it must be recognized that before anyone else it was God himself, the Eternal Father, who entrusted himself to the Virgin of Nazareth, giving her his own Son in the mystery of the Incarnation."87

Michael Gaitley

#10. One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Susan Sontag

#11. The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

Austin Farrer

#12. When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Winston S. Churchill

#13. Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#14. Get away from these two types of people: the ones who think you can only go as far as the situation you were born into; and the ones who think you can only go as far as the current situation you are in.

Dee Dee M. Scott