Best 79 quotes in «fence quotes» category

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

Fences and borders are a sign of weakness.

For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it.

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.

In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first.

It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

People have become inappropriate. People have pushed too far. People have climbed one too many fences. I'm just tired of it.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

[Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

The problem is, if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence, we need to deal with that too.

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.

There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

There were a lot of fences and walls existing in my life, literally and figuratively, and that was really not indicative of the kind of person that I'd always been. So, when I moved back to Seattle, the first thing I said was, "I will never live in fear again.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.