Bridge Building Quotes

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

I choose to bring people together. I choose to seek compromise.

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

I went to Pakistan; I engaged in peace. If a hand extended is not shaken, what are you supposed to do?

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf of the future.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

Fly ash helps create longer-lasting and stronger concrete for use in roads, bridges, runways, and rail transit.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world.