Blow Quotes - Page 11

• I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

  Jayson Blair

  Feels, Unfortunate, Profession

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• If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You
  cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Strong, Fire, Hands

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.46, Vintage

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• Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Truth, Eye

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

  Steve Forbes

  Real, Thinking, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

  Mark Zupan

  Men, Hustle, Flow

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• Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

  John Gay

  Daisies, Meadows, Grows

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

  Charles Mackay

  Flower, Men, Light

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Coquette, Inward

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

  John Locke

  Children, Mean, Trying

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 84), 1693.

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• Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

  Lord Byron

  Freedom, Would Be, Arms

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

  John Howard

  Taken, Thinking, People

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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• Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

  Michael Moore

  Suicide, Israel, Years

  "Dude, Where's My Country?". Book by Michael Moore, 2003.

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• Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

  David Coleman

  Football, Wind, Kevin

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• We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

  Matthew Fox

  Beauty, Cracks, Ugly

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• I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It's called "They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'm Not Raking 'Til Spring."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Song, Girlfriend

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• When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Kids, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't let those fools blow your cool! Stay righteous to yourself and follow your dreams no matter what! Life is beautiful if you make it that way.

  Dahvie Vanity

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Dream

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• Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

  Andrew Ripp

  Night, Feelings, Mind

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• It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Opportunity, Wind, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.

  Don DeLillo

  Two, World, Narrative

  "Finding reason in an age of terror". Interview with David L. Ulin, articles.latimes.com. April 15, 2003.

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Names

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Two

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• Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Forever, Goes On, Ends

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Eye, Night, Goal

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• Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

  Rebecca West

  Wind, Issues, Sound

  Rebecca West (2011). “Survivors in Mexico”, p.20, Open Road Media

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