May The Bridges I Burn Quotes

#1. May the bridges I burn light the way.

Melissa J. Rees

#2. Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

Ai Weiwei

#3. Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Sigourney Weaver

#4. Railroads have eaten up all the capital and covered Russia like spiderwebs, so that perhaps in another fifteen years or so one may even be able to take a ride somewhere. Bridges burn only rarely, while towns burn down regularly, in established order, by turns, during the fire seasons.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

Richard L. Evans

#6. One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. Yes, burn your bridges.

Bette Davis

#8. It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

Fiorello LaGuardia

#9. Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

Drake

#10. I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Dinah Shore

#11. You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.

Amanda Schull

#12. Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#13. Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

Saul D. Alinsky

#14. You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.

Marta Mrotek

#15. Consider the road, long and forked
as the Devil's own tongue.
Consider the Devil, burning
every bridge; Placing
in every tree a black bird.
In every bird a black thought.

Cecilia Llompart

#16. Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

Harvey MacKay

#17. Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

Thomas Mars

#18. My policy has always been to burn my bridges behind me. My face is always set toward the future. If I make a mistake it is fatal. When I am flung back I fall all the way back - to the very bottom. My one safeguard is my resiliency. So far I have always bounced back.

Henry Miller

#19. Never burn bridges. If it's a faulty bridge then close it off and let it fall on its own.

Gregor Collins

#20. Great men burn bridges before they come to them

E. E. Cummings

#21. The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma's success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned above. It's not Don't kill your host. It's Don't burn your bridges until after you've crossed them.

David Quammen

#22. Stop telling me not to burn bridges. Some bridges are meant to be burnt, some roads are never meant to be traveled again.

Steve Maraboli

#23. When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.

Sun Tzu

#24. The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!

Mooji

#25. Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

J. Cole

#26. We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

#27. The problem is he didn't just burn his bridges when he left New York, he blew them up and napalmed the river.

Lauren Beukes

#28. You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

Terry Gilliam

#29. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

Dale Dauten

#31. Some say, don't burn your bridges.

I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,

and watch it
turn to ash.

There's always more than one way
to cross the water.

Rudy Francisco

#32. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer