Embankment Quotes

#1. Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as if to establish whether anything had changed, but clearly it had not, and though the wind appeared a little stronger, the snow was still swirling in all directions.

John Le Carre

#2. I should like to understand what really goes on in the souls of plongeurs and tramps and Embankment sleepers. At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty.

George Orwell

#3. I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against the embankment, in the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head, and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation.
I object!" repeated the man.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#4. It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.

Amitav Ghosh

#5. She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

E. M. Forster

#6. Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.

Gertrude Stein

#7. As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm.

Virginia Woolf

#8. As for agility, a biologist at the National Bison Range in Montana once observed a 2,000-pound bull leap up a six-foot embankment from a standing start!13

Michael Punke

#9. During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.

Danilo Kis

#10. As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Lance Loud

#11. Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.

Cesare Beccaria

#12. The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. If no one can stalemate God in a game of chess, no one should ever think of winning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

#15. Young people need models, not critics.

John Wooden

#16. You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

Robert Jordan

#17. The Christmas memories you make this year will be the ones you remember in the years to come.

Toni Sorenson

#18. Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn

Sedrie Danielle