Blow Quotes - Page 31

• Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree bends and does not break. He advises us to bend and not to break.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Wind, Tree

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• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  Carl Lewis

  Stars, People, Acting

  "Speed: the sequel" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops and I am for the President - chase them all over the world, if it takes ten years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.

  Jerry Falwell

  Years, Names, President

  Jerry Falwell's remarks during the CNN debate with Jesse Jackson, October 24, 2004.

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• Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!

  Benny Hinn

  Gun, Giving, Wish

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• Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability to sue our own troops all over the country for any and everything.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Airplane, People

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• God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

  Betty Williams

  War, Army, Names

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• I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

  Neal Stephenson

  Mind, Expenses, Accounts

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.329, Spectra

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• The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Thieves, Trouble

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Even the Stars Look Lonesome”, p.26, Bantam

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• Let us seek truth everywhere;
  let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom
  or its SEED. Having Found the seed,
  let us scatter it to the winds of heaven.
  Where ever it may blow, it will germinate.
  There is no lack in this wide universe of souls
  that will form the new ground.

  Romain Rolland

  Truth, Wind, Heaven

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• What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq....They target and kill journalists ... uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like Al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity.

  Linda Foley

  Country, Hate, Military

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• You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Pieces, World

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• I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

  Marc Bolan

  Children, Thinking, Europe

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• As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
  Float in the garden when no wind blows,
  Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
  So the old tunes float in my mind,
  And go from me leaving no trace behind,
  Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, Garden, Wind

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, Way, Should

  "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1770.

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• Desmo is my guard dog, but he has a sweet side, too. Nothing entertains him (or me) more than when I blow bubbles and he can chase them.

  Debi Mazar

  Dog, Sweet, Pet

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• Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

  Sean Hannity

  Enemy, Conflict, Absence

  "Hannity" on Fox News, October 13, 2009.

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• The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS COMING CAN BE SUMMED UP IN, 'JESUS IS TRYING TO HELP GET MORE SOULS INTO HEAVEN, AS OPPOSED TO HELL, AFTER THEY DIE.' I JUST THINK A FAIR READING OF THE GOSPELS BLOWS THAT OUT OF THE WATER. I don't think that the entire message and life of Jesus can be boiled down to that bottom line

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Reading, Thinking

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• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows awayOf course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Two, Energy

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• I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass.

  Dennis Miller

  War, Tape, Mouths

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• But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence.

  Juhani Peltonen

  Morning, Atheist, Lying

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• We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.

  Rob Long

  Mistake, Decision, Risk

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• It's an ill wind that blows no good.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Wind

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• Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Patience, Tyrants, Victory

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.626

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