Blow Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think it's gone much too far. Most of them are not worth the powder to blow them to hell.

  John C. Bogle

  Thinking, Gone, Investing

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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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• 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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