Blow Quotes - Page 33

• The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Liberty, Revolution, Defense

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.

  Thomas J. Sargent

  Water, Made, Function

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• Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.

  Rocky Bridges

  Squad, Coaching, Bombs

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• The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

  Norman Corwin

  Moving, Thinking, Saws

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• Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

  Harold Lindsell

  Prince Of Peace, World, May

  Harold Lindsell (1973). “The world, the flesh, and the Devil”

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• When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Mind, Four, Opponents

  "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.

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• It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’

  Jean Guitton

  Teaching, Humanity, Essentials

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• For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.

  Larry L. King

  Texas, Wind, Sky

  Larry L. King (1980). “Of outlaws, con men, whores, politicians, and other artists”, Viking Adult

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• If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Adults, Noses

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• If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Anger, Blood

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

  William McFee

  Country, Ideas, Hands

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Government, Media

  "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.

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• Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
  Is wild within me! what may quell
  That sullen tempest? I must sail
  Whither, O whither, who can tell!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Wind, May, Sullen

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.80

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• From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
  There is a moment's pause.
  If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.

  Ikkyu

  Rain, Passion, Wind

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• There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.

  Helen Humphreys

  Garden, Weather, Essentials

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• In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Russia, Years, Communist

  Roger Lowenstein (2000). “When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management”, Random House Incorporated

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• Write something dangerous. Say something you shouldn’t. Blow something up. But well.

  Shalom Auslander

  Writing, Dangerous, Wells

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• Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Vices, Strikes, Committed

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• We, with all of our sin, weakness, and failures are welcome to do what should blow our minds. We are not only tolerated by God at a distance; no, we are welcomed into intimate personal communion with the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the creator, the sovereign, the Savior. We, as unholy as we are, are told to go with confidence into his holy presence.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Distance, Mind

  Paul David Tripp (2013). “Dangerous Calling”, p.200, SPCK

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• At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

  Nicole Blackman

  Moments, Knows

  Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books

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• I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

  Lucian

  Men, Divinity, Holiness

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• The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

  Joe Garagiola

  Running, Yankees, Wind

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• My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

  A.M. Homes

  Jobs, Sex, War

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• We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Inspiration, Wind, Enough

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press

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• One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me

  Princess Diana

  One Day, Helicopters

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