Across Quotes - page 2

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. (Kenneth Grahame)
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet. View quote
Bertrand Russell
While standing on top of Everest, I looked across the valley, towards the other great peak, Makalu, and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed... it showed me that, even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything for me, by any means. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. View quote
Edmund Hillary
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. View quote
Boris Pasternak
There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things. View quote
Michelle Gomez
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. View quote
Maajid Nawaz
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. View quote
Winston Churchill
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. View quote
C. S. Lewis
To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach. (Teresa Medeiros)
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. View quote
Bong Joon-ho
Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing. View quote
J.R. Ward
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people. View quote
James Heckman
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds. View quote
Dean Karnazes
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul. View quote
Catherine Fisher
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town. View quote
Luke Harding
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. (Armstrong Williams)
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. View quote
Charles Kuralt
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises. View quote
Colin Mochrie
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington