Vehicle Quotes - Page 12

• A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Soul, Body, Emotion

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.340, Macmillan

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• Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long were you there? Did you do something or did you talk? What was the nature of your discussion? Could this trip have been avoided?" I rubbed my face. "So basically you're scared that His Lordship might get his panties in a bunch?" "That's one way to put it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Might, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.218, Penguin

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• The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why birth is such a humbling experience. The new mom weeps in awe at the little miracle in her arms. She knows it came out of her but not from her, through her but not of her.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mom, Mother, Artist

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• Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?

  Tina St. John

  Jesus, Blow, Quitting

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• The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

  Marina Warner

  Odds, Teeth, Fairy Tale

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• We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a sturdy door I could bolt from the inside, keeping your grandmother, your brothers, and all other painfully annoying spectators out..." Rose began to laugh. A make-out bunker... "I'm glad you find our dilemma hilarious.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Wall, Grandmother

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• Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

  David Nicholls

  Energy, Tape, Letters

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

  Graeme Simsion

  Wind, Risk, Sound

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Hate, Ego

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• I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

  George Russell

  Music, Writing, Self

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• The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.

  Gunther Blumentritt

  Horse, Military, Team

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• .....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Party

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• Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Body

  "Information minister: Iraq still controls airport". www.cnn.com. April 6, 2003.

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• There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is extraterrestrial. There are no acceptable arguments against flying saucer reality, only people who either haven't studied the relevant data or have a strong will not to believe that Earth is at the bottom of the heap sociologically and technologically in our local galactic neighborhood.

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Strong, Believe, Reality

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• The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Earth, Evidence, Ufo

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• I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Earth, Littles

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• It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Thinking, Body

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• Several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base Germany, 1951 and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters. I do believe UFOs exist and that the truly unexplained ones are from some other technically advanced civilization.

  Gordon Cooper

  Believe, Civilization, Groups

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• We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Space, Earth

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Literature, World

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

  Eva Longoria

  Feelings, Needs, Done

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• There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

  Daniel Dennett

  Memories, Independent, Reality

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• Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

  Joe Hyams

  Spiritual, Art, Years

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam

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• Find time for thought, this is the source of strength.
  Find time for the game, this is the secret of eternal youth.
  Find time for reading, this is the Foundation of knowledge.
  Find time to be friendly, this is the road to happiness.
  Find time for dreams, they will pull your vehicle as the stars.
  Find time to love and be loved in return, this is the privilege of the gods.
  Find time to look around you, it's too short a day to be selfish.
  Find time to laugh this is the music of the soul.

  Giannis Ritsos

  Dream, Stars, Selfish

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• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  Aaliyah

  Right Time, Dies

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