Marleau Fence Quotes

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them. ~ Patrick Marleau

I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do. ~ Patrick Marleau

Many clouds arise, On all sides a manifold fence, To receive within it the spouses, They form a manifold fence - Ah! that manifold fence!" Nihongi, trans. by W. G. Aston. ~ F. Hadland Davis

The grass beyond your fence is always greener, but don't jump the fence to see whether it is actually so. Enjoy it! If it is greener on the other side of the fence, enjoy it. Why destroy things by jumping the fence and finding out that it is worse than your own grass? ~ Osho

There was a fence and there was this other van- So I go, 'Fence or van? Cause I'm crashing into one of them,' and I said 'Fence,' so I hit the fence and bounced into the van ~ Pete Wentz

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. ~ Alex Haley

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me. ~ Bum Phillips

You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!) ~ Edward Abbey

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence. ~ Norman Mailer

Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence. ~ Morgan Freeman

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. ~ Douglas Coupland

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position. ~ Edward Abbey

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence. ~ Roger Clemens

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points. ~ Texas Bix Bender

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence. ~ Brendan

The sun was prying up the clouds and lighting the brick front of the hospital rose red. A thin breeze worked at sawing what leaves were left from the oak trees, stacking them neatly agains the wire cyclone fence. There were little brown birds occasionally on the fence: when a puff of leaves would hit the fence the birds would fly off with the wind. It looked at first like the leaves were hitting the fence and turning into birds and flying away. ~ Ken Kesey

I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. ~ Carl Sandburg

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. ~ Julie Krone

Will, what do you see when you look at that?"
"A fence"
"Yeah, a fence. Used to contain something, keep it trapped. A prison, perhaps." *Bends her head* "But when I look at it like THIS... to me it looks like a ladder. Which is the opposite of a fence. A ladder means escape, freedom. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in. ~ Shonda Rhimes

A fence to wisdom is silence. ~ Rabbi Akiva

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible. ~ Silvan Shalom

A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it. ~ Dick Francis

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence. ~ Phillip Noyce

She wants the kids, the cars, the house, and the white picket fence. I said sure, I can give you a fence. ~ Jarod Kintz

Elvis walked over and signed a few autographs over the fence. They were screaming. I had never seen this. ~ Minnie Pearl

It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley. ~ Joseph Malins

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life. ~ Ronnie Van Zant

If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay. ~ Jerry Vines

He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce. ~ Fintan O'Toole

I'd like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence. ~ Martin Starr

If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it. ~ Cyril Smith

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom. ~ Bob Hawke

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run. ~ Robert Jordan

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence. ~ Jason Giambi

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. ~ Saddam Hussein

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. ~ Phil Donahue

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders. ~ Bill Richardson

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis. ~ Silvan Shalom

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~ Lemuel K. Washburn

Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour. ~ Julia Mancuso

You are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is a dream. ~ Erin Morgenstern

Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror. ~ Tzachi Hanegbi

Cutting is a fence you build upon your own body to keep people out but then you cry to be touched. But the fence is barbed. What then? ~ Kathleen Glasgow

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. ~ Karen Marie Moning

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years. ~ Silvan Shalom

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. ~ Duncan Hunter

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember. ~ Philip Dunne

The Snake in the fence is now inside the lungi ~ Sidin Vadukut

Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds. ~ Robert Riskin

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. ~ George Segal

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue. ~ Duncan Hunter

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence. ~ Ronee Blakley

Fear is the highest fence. ~ Dudley Nichols

I ran straight into the wooden fence at the foot of the field.
I was lucky that it had been a rail fence, rather than a barbed wire, or I would have shredded myself into vampire linguine. ~ Helen Keeble

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out. ~ David Letterman

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence. ~ Queen Mary

Richard has informed me he is shopping for his white picket fence. I'm happy behind my black wrought iron fence. The one with the pointy spikes on top. White never really was my color. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai ~ Gosho Aoyama

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~ Gary Ross

How does someone keep a chicken inside a fence? I had closed my eyes at that one, picturing Cocky running off into the cotton fields, and me, standing at the edge of the fence, hollering the rooster's name like a crazy woman. ~ Alessandra Torre

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values. ~ Harold Prince

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. ~ Zadie Smith

I spread my majestic wings. I had really done it! I was a noble falcon, lord of the sky. I launched myself off the sidewalk and flew straight into the fence. ~ Rick Riordan

From when she was young, Molly had learned that the fence was an important landmark for the Mardudjara people of the Western Desert who migrated south from the remote regions. They knew that once they reached Billanooka Station, it was simply a matter of following the rabbit-proof fence to their final destination, the Jigalong government depot; the desert outpost of the white man. The fence cut through the country from south to north. It was a typical response by the white people to a problem of their own making. Building a fence to keep the rabbits out proved to be a futile attempt by the government of the day.

For the three runaways, the fence was a symbol of love, home and security. ~ Doris Pilkington

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process. ~ Ted Nugent

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. ~ John Milton

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. ~ Tom Shales

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others? ~ E. M. Forster

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. ~ David Lloyd George

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. ~ Lee Iacocca

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure. ~ Matt Chandler

I might be on the fence about this life, but I 'm not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you. ~ Nalini Singh

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence ~ Henry A. Kissinger

We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally. ~ Ted Cruz

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party. ~ Max Frisch

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing. ~ Seal

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. ~ James Wolcott

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again. ~ Conan O'Brien

So when we met that first night," I said, "by the fence, you thought I was friendly?" "I didn't think you weren't," he said. "I wasn't very nice to you." "You were jumping a fence. I didn't take it personally. ~ Sarah Dessen

But I realize I don't want to do it alone.I want to fence you in, Brian," she murmured, framing his face with her hands. "I've been hammering at that damn fence for weeks. Ever since I realized I was in love with you. ~ Nora Roberts

To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barking dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy who's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you, tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork. ~ Robert Riskin

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both. ~ Kelsea Ballerini

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. ~ Mark Van Doren

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence. ~ Shemar Moore

What happened next played itself out like a terrible drama with two spectators. Lee and I stayed on our side of the fence, like an audience. Of course if the bull had wanted to smash through the fence he could have done so any time, but luckily nearly all cattle live and die without learning that. It's like school, most students go from kindergarten to Year 12 without noticing that they could do a fair amount of damage if they wanted to. They stay inside the fence. ~ John Marsden

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use. ~ David Rouzer

Of course, as always, there is an arbitrary, invisible fence in place. You can't see it, but it will always keep you out. It will always encircle happiness and keep you out. ~ Leila Sales

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe. ~ Alexander Lukashenko

There's capital controls and there's people control. So every time you think of a fence keeping all those bad people out, think about those fences maybe being used against us, keeping us in. ~ Ron Paul

Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?"
"How so?"
"Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was war. I guess that humans are the only things on earth that take everything they own and fence it off. ~ Robert Newton Peck

I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career. ~ Torii Hunter

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself. ~ Will Rogers

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters. ~ Matthea Harvey

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements. ~ Ariel Sharon

As far as I could see, there weren't any fiber-optic sensors buried in the ground next to the perimeter fence. That would have been outrageously costly. Unnecessary, too. Instead, the facility was protected by a twelve-foot chain-link fence, six-gauge galvanized steel - extremely difficult to cut through - and topped by coils of razor wire. ~ Joseph Finder