Joseph Straus quotes

When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.
-- Joseph Straus

#Bridges #All Time

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.
-- Joseph Straus

#Bridges #Cities #Water

No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
-- Joseph Straus

#War #Should Have #Hazards

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Double Indemnity is one of my all time favorites. Thats my favorite.

Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.