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As children, we played cowboys and Indians through the fields and forests, looking for foes as though being set upon was the worst we’d face. As children we found horseshoes, dusty hidden treasures buried in dirt, and we’d take them home and hang them on our walls alongside our Farrah and football posters. Innately we knew that someday we’d grow out of this, so mornings and afternoons we’d carry on, content, a real word in our small vocabulary.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 day ago

Theology is what I would consider “the dance of the unseen”, a slow dance with the intangible forces that shape the contours of existence. In this metaphysical ballroom, dogmas and doctrines swirl like ephemeral partners, casting shadows on the walls of human understanding. The unseen becomes the veil through which revelation flutters, inviting seekers to engage in the sacred minuet of contemplation. Here, theology is not merely an intellectual discourse but I would consider it a bold artistic expression.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

Tunneling through barriers, particles defy the boundaries of our classical confinement, revealing the audacious spirit of quantum defiance against the imprisoning walls of determinism.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

He laughs, in the way that I have come to admire–as if there are no fences holding him back, as if pure glee could paint all the walls of the world in a single coat.

Jodi Picoult

added by JokerGem
8 months ago

For me, it wasn’t the tube slides and climbing walls and the fact that they reimbursed your Wi-Fi, it really was for me, about the people and I cared about the mission and the sense that it was very creative and freewheeling.

Cameron Rout

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If grass and other plants grow in or on the ancient walls and houses this is a problem. So we try to have a sustainable approach to the whole environment in order also to avoid using substances then to avoid growing plants, having plants growing on the walls and ruins.

Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They scaled walls, they brought ropes. A couple of protesters died because they scaled. And when you have the inaugural, there was scaffolding. They were scaling the scaffolding. They, they overtook the place.

Kevin McCarthys

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I suspect the main response is going to be protection works rather than moving people away. So building sea walls, building levees, stop banks, putting houses up on higher piles.

James Renwick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I built walls up years ago, because the war that happened really messed me up. I did n’t want to get hurt like that again, but with this earthquake, I feel those walls crumbling. I am remembering things I do n’t want to remember, and I ca n’t think of anything else. Others, like Zahra and Ameer Alsamman, say they are struggling with survivor’s guilt, possessed with a relentless, sinking feeling that no matter how much they help it wo n’t be enough.

Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan Mourning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

John Cotton

added by Normando
1 year ago

There is no data that actually shows that saying 'defund the police' cost actual elections, we have Republicans saying defund the FBI. You know, where are we — where is our narrative? Let me tell you this. Democrats — there were not Democrats scaling walls on January the 6th when I was at the Capitol… Democrats didn't kill police officers.

Cori Bush

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board hearing is not designed to be a substitute for a trial before a jury. The juries heard evidence about Coddington's childhood environment and brain development during the sentencing phase of the trials, the jury also concluded that James Coddington was a continuing threat to society -- both inside and outside of prison walls.

Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Connor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will break down any and all walls looming ahead of the Japanese economy and map out a new trajectory for growth. This is precisely the mission of Abenomics.

Shinzo Abe

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It was very hard because we heard big explosions, like all the time, mostly in the evening, my walls were shaking. Every two minutes we heard explosions. There were such huge explosions at one time that we all, from different rooms, would run into the bathroom. After this, on the sixth day, we decided to leave the house.

Andrii Maxymov -RRB- Sasha

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They cause awful inflammation and are implicated by a famous, now-retired heart surgeon who has 1,000 bypasses under his belt. He claims that sugar and refined vegetable oils are the real cause of heart disease, they damage the arterial walls, leading to injury, causing the body to create layers of deposits to repair the damage.

Ava Rockwell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For five decades, Don Young was an institution in the hallowed halls of Congress : a serious legislator always bringing people together to do the People's work, the photographs of him with ten presidents of both parties who signed Don Young bills into law that proudly cover the walls of Don Young Rayburn office are a testament to Don Young longevity and Don Young legislative mastery.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These students were not only physically intimidating the other students and the speakers, they were pounding on the walls, blocking the exits, and disrupting the event throughout. … It shouldn't take place on a law student campus in the law school classroom.

Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re talking about a kind of prison without walls where he’s deprived of travel for the next 10 years, that would be continuing the punishment outside of prison that he was having inside prison — the severe pain of being deprived of being with his wife and children.

Irwin Cotler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would like to build bridges not walls

Oscar Arias Sanchez

added by anonymous
2 years ago

If freestyle super pipes are formed from snow-making machines in a poor season, the walls of the pipe are solid, vertical ice and the pipe floor is solid ice, this is dangerous for athletes, some have died.

Laura Donaldson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Look the impression is, of course, we are from famous parents – it's not an impression, it's a fact, but within the four walls, it was a very normal family. Because they came from where they came from – which was nothing – they understood that and wanted to instill those values.

Oliver Hudson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The walls of the church are giving way inward, the roof is in danger. We need to see what the strategy is for repair.

Edgardo Rivera

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not on my watch, i will never be in a situation where when someone comes for anyone that there will be no one left to speak for me because I did not speak up. That is a paraphrase of a poem that is on the walls of the United States Holocaust Museum.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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