How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?
Being dead is being weak and walled off.
Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.
Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.
Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
You are wise as well as short. " "I can also break bricks with my bare hands. " "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.
The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're like a walled garden, where you know what you're going to see and you expect it. But in the world of TV, because it's episodic, you can explore any area because you have time to do that. You can take risks on the kinds of storytelling that you're doing.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
