Quotes About Checkpoints

#1. After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

David Cameron

#2. The fuss made over the chickens at the checkpoints is not to be believed. Unlike me they had their own papers.

Elizabeth Wein

#3. Map out lofty goals ... include reasonable checkpoints along the way ... refine, improve, and enhance your behavior in alignment with your goals ... . that is the dynamic of true leadership and the formula for success.

Steve Maraboli

#4. You're mother says you've never passed a mirror ou didn't like. It's true, in a way. It's not that you're vain; you're concerned. Mirrors are opportunities. They're random checkpoints throughout the day.

Adam Gallari

#5. These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

Joe Henderson

#6. I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#7. You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#8. When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: Don't be a victim, join the movement.

Mia Bloom

#9. On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

Otto Schily

#10. Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [ ... ]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).

Gunter Schabowski

#11. When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

Shia Labeouf

#12. Hagen Koch: 'There was no other transport. People on bikes could evade checkpoints, they could have secret meetings

Anna Funder

#13. Life is way too short to get lost, so follow the script the way it comes and keep changing the checkpoints on every page.

Neetesh Dixit

#14. As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#15. Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Martin H. Fischer

#16. I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

#17. I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Tyrone Power

#18. Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly matters. What's written on your form is far more important.

Yuval Noah Harari

#19. There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

Annie Dillard

#20. Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking."
Cam: "Oh God."
Avery: "Shut up.

J. Lynn

#21. I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Cato The Younger

#22. Indoors was his place and there he'd moulder, a respectable pillar of society who has never had the chance to misbehave.

E. M. Forster

#23. There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

John Chancellor

#24. They're both bungholes who think they're too noble to shit,

George R R Martin

#25. We change when circumstances necessitate it; we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

China Mieville

#27. The foundation laid in us before was a foundation of thoughts, traditions, and religion of men

Sunday Adelaja

#28. From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

Frank Herman Schofield

#29. Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down

Keri Hilson