Block Quotes - Page 5

• My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.

  Immortal Technique

  Kids, Average, White

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• The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Baby, School, Men

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• Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Past, Men, Mad

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• The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Wall, Soul, Why Not

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• Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow of well-being. To well-being it doesn’t make a difference.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Differences, Water

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• Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Thinking, Feels

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.163, CUP Archive

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• Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

  Richard Turner

  Phones, Talking, Shopping

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• Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Want, Way

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.614

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• In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Light, World, Green

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Vulgarity Is, Razors, Endeavor

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.

  Lee Iacocca

  Believe, Class, Guy

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• You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

  Thomas Merton

  Years, Ideas, Work Out

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.862, Macmillan

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• Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Car, Experience, Breaking Down

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.158, Grove Press

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• The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning.

  Erno Rubik

  Hands, Important, Three

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• Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Sound, Novel

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• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Moving, Writing, Hands

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• A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

  Ramakrishna

  Prayer, Real, Blessed

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• Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

  Walter Benjamin

  Beautiful, Past, Yield

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Emotional, Thinking, Intuition

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.

  Rollo May

  Technology, Dimensions, Danger

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Running, Practice, Frustrated

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• There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna. He was about to give up in despair, leaving the vision of his life unrealized, when in a dream he was bidden to carve his Madonna from a block of oak wood which was destined for the fire. He obeyed and produced a masterpiece from a log of common firewood. Many of us lose great opportunities in life by waiting to find sandalwood for our carvings, when they really lie hidden in the common logs that we burn.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Dream, Giving Up, Lying

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.277, e-artnow

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• There is a fear of peace that I don't understand. Witness the old epithet "peaceniks," the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

  Jennifer James

  Peace, Kindness, Children

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• While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.

  Susan Jeffers

  Powerful, Attitude, Loving Life

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• I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Past, Three

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