Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.


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Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it!
CHRISTOPHER TITUS
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Build a bridge and get the heck over it!
MARIE MUHAMMAD
Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
JENNIFER LE
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
You can't cross a river until you can take your eyes off it long enough to build a bridge.
MELINDA OVERTURF
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
If someone hurts you, Cry a river, Build a bridge and get over it.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM
It will certainly be a hard process to go through. But we can't cross that bridge until we know we h...
DENNIS MCGEEHAN
Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. Y...
ZAKK WYLDE
Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
NIKITA S. KHRUSHCHEV
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NEHA KOTHARI
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
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GARY F EVANS...
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f...
SARAH DESSEN
Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ...
RICHIE NORTON
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no o...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.
JUDI DENCH
If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.
TAYLOR SWIFT
I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
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DEYTH BANGER
He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON
When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bri...
HOWARD TAYLER
Don't cross the bridge till you come to it.
PROVERB
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it
PROVERB
Don't cross the bridge until you get to it
ENGLISH PROVERB
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
OSCAR LEVANT
Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON
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ANDY WARHOL
Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was...
MONICA DICKENS
The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.
FRANK SINATRA
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VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN
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STEVEN STRAIT
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NICHOLSON BAKER
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn
DAVID RUSSELL
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
DAVID RUSSELL
I'm one of my sensations.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... ...
HARRY STYLES
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HARRY STYLES
And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.
ILONA ANDREWS
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL
Fool is he, who wants to build a house of security on a bubble of impermanence called, life.
DR HITESH C SHETH
We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of tim...
BERNARD M. BARUCH
One thing I cannot stand is dishonesty between friends. All it does is build a gap and a bridge.
IRENE BOFFO
Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that hav...
LEMONY SNICKET
If you don't appreciate me for who I am , I am totally over it!!
KAT MORGAN
We'll cross the bridge when we reach it, ... But yeah. We - let's see. We'll work on the story, work...
AISHWARYA RAI
I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
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ALBERTO CAEIRO
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JAMES C. DOBSON
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ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS
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KATORI HALL
There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE
I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.
OSCAR LEVANT
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OSCAR LEVANT
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KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH
It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER
It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.
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DREW BREES
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There passes for a moment the fig...
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The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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ANQUAN BOLDIN
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
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GRANT FAIRLEY
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ANONYMOUS
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO
If I have to make a decision later, then I cross that bridge when I get to it.
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Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING
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Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeat...
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