Clogging Quotes

• In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres

  Margaret Atwood

  Animal, Air, Views

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.

  Charles E. Sorensen

  Wisdom, Clogging Up, Organization

  Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williams (2006). “My Forty Years with Ford”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Men, Anxious Thoughts

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• Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Giants, Sometimes, Easier

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Triangles: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
  In this long war beneath the stars;
  So shall a glory wreathe my head,
  So shall I faint and show the scars,
  Until this case, this clogging mould,
  Be smithied all to kingly gold.

  John Masefield

  Stars, War, Struggle

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

  Alberto Salazar

  Wise, Stress, Heart

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Fighting, Television, Wave

  "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.

  Andre Braugher

  Drama, Phones, Clogging Up

  "Interview: ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ star Andre Braugher still isn’t sure he’s funny". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 5, 2014.

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• I've noticed that the less makeup I wear, the less I need it because my skin starts to look better - my face doesn't break out as often and I have fewer skin problems because I'm not clogging your pores every single day with makeup.

  Lindsay Arnold

  Makeup, Skins, Faces

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• Sometimes, when there's too much traffic clogging up the road you need to take a different route. But following the same path as everyone else can stall your progress in reaching your investment goals too.

  Mark Mobius

  Clogging Up, Goal, Progress

  "I Myself Have Fallen Victim To Wrongful Assumptions" by Mark Mobius, www.businessinsider.com. April 11, 2013.

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• On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Home, Clogging Up

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Confused, Moving

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Thinking, Clogging Up

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• It’s not the plant-based foods that will make you ill, it’s the meat and the liquid meat (i.e.: dairy) that can lead to sickness and death. Consider this: If your food had a face or a mother (or comes from something that did), then it also has varying amounts of artery-clogging, plaque-plugging, and cholesterol-hiking animal protein, animal cholesterol, and animal fat. These substances are the building blocks of the chronic diseases that plague Western society.

  Rip Esselstyn

  Mother, Block, Animal

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, Knowing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it.

  Douglas Adams

  Clogging Up, Criminals, Problem

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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