The Walled City Quotes

#1. But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the walled City.

Ryan Graudin

#2. There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.

Ryan Graudin

#3. If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...

Antoinette Bosco

#4. An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.

Nimrat Kaur

#5. It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

Alfred Bester

#6. The braid is always stronger than the strand.

Ryan Graudin

#7. One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

Elizabeth Goudge

#8. This is my world. Wide and open and waiting.

Ryan Graudin

#9. Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

Sophie Kinsella

#10. To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

Josephine Baker

#11. I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#12. It never made sense to my young mind, how a hurt from so long ago could keep a man from walking right. Stay with him for the rest of his life. But now that I am older, now that I've fought my own wars and fired my own guns, I understand.

Ryan Graudin

#13. Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be

Tea Obreht

#14. Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.

Ryan Graudin

#16. Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up there for all eternity.

Ryan Graudin

#17. We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

Paul Simon

#18. And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

Barack Obama

#19. Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

Sophocles

#20. You're never given a dream without the power to make it true.

Richard Bach