"Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams."
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"I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay."
"Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge."
"Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not."
"No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts"
"That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity."
"This bridge will take you halfway there - the last few steps you will have to take yourself."
"I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge."
"How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?"
"Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass."
"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other."
"I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole."
"A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far."
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."
"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."
"You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT"
"He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass."
"The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there."
"Don't cross the bridge til you come to it."