Best 79 quotes in «fence quotes» category

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

The grass is always greener on the other side--that's because we can't see over the fence.

The height of a man’s wall or fence is usually a reflection of the depth or shallowness of his neighbours’ pockets.

The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")

When we close our options at some point of time, we learn to be happy with what we have. However, when we keep our options open, we are rarely happy with what we have as we find the grass greener on the other side of the fence.

Will, what do you see when you look at that?" "A fence" "Yeah, a fence. Used to contain something, keep it trapped. A prison, perhaps." *Bends her head* "But when I look at it like THIS... to me it looks like a ladder. Which is the opposite of a fence. A ladder means escape, freedom.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

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Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.

And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

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

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

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

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

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.

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.