“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.” ThinkingMenFirstsHumansHeartNightGuyLinesWonderFireDoorsSeaWallDrawsBuiltCaves Author:Tana French
“I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.” MenSaidWallMetsExoticBackyardsCanyonsGrand CanyonGreat WallSongbirdsExotic Places Author:Richard Bode
“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.” MenWarFriendshipCitiesEnemyKnowledgeLearningBuildingWallLessonsShipsFoe Author:Aristophanes
“The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.” MenHonestWallRaisedCivicsHonest Man Author:William Henry O'Connell
“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.” MenSaidMomentsSchoolForceSimpleWalksViolenceBuildingHe ManWallTruth IsOfficeGunBallsThreatExtremesCirclesTeenagerShootingReasonablePairsThroatKnivesGun ControlKickingCurlsSidewalkSimple TruthsOffice Buildings Author:Rory Miller
“What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.” MenMayShowsEyeDesireForceTeachWallFoolWeatherMultitudesInteriorsCasualtiesLearning More Author:William Shakespeare