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Fence Quotes
On the fence, on purpose.
This collection of fence quotes uses the fence both literally and as a metaphor for indecision, including one speaker who stays deliberately undecided on the issue of abortion.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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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.
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The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.
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A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
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I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
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In our pugilistic take-no-prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural.
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Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.
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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.
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If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
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