Blow Quotes - Page 10

• The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to.

  Henry Rollins

  Talking, Ideas, Free Jazz

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Prayer, Real

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.41, St Athanasius Press

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• Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows on a man like a strong wind, and then quickly, taking from him the fruits of his good works, it goes away from him, laughing at his foolishness.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Air, Wind

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3987, e-artnow

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• In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.

  George S. Patton

  War, Ignorant, Enemy

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• First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me.

  Columbus Short

  Inspire, Mind, Void

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• I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Home, Jewels, Promise

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

  Margaret Cho

  Who I Am, Color, Identity

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Stars, Lying, Spring

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• A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Military, War, Views

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• When after many battles past,
  Both tir'd with blows,
  make peace at last,
  What is it, after all, the people get?
  Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  War, Past, People

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• And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Silence, Sound, Heal

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• A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

  Francis Bacon

  War, Causes, Conflict

  Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.191

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• The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow though it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.

  William Pitt

  Kings, Rain, Men

  Speech in House of Commons, ca. March 1763 See Coke 1; Coke 8; Otis 2

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• There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

  Hugh Allen

  Wisdom, Revenge, Fighting

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• A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

  John Webster

  Fashion, Political, Devil

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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• You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

  Margaret Weis

  Fire, Water, Soul

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• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Years, Two, World

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• Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

  Rob Thomas

  Life, Moving, Creating

  Rob Thomas (2007). “Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

  Edward Young

  Love, Shining, Signals

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.121

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• I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

  Robert Stone

  Dog, War, Fall

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• The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Wind, Broken

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• Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

  John Connolly

  Soul, Ashes, Abandon

  John Connolly (2011). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.

  Robert Anthony

  Running, Fear, Self Confidence

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