Blow Quotes - Page 36

• Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Character, Reflection, Reactions

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• A lot of the difference between an IM and GM is a seriousness to the game. The GM is willing to go through all this. He's willing to put up with anything. This shows his dedication. One other thing is the GMs superiority in tactics. For example Christiansen can find tactics in any position. If you're a GM you should be able to overpower the IM tactically. The GM will often blow out the IM in this area.

  Nick de Firmian

  Dedication, Games, Differences

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• There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

  Alan Cranston

  Simple, Nuclear Disarmament, Issues

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• We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2644, Manonmani Publishers

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• Another Clinton presidency would be a death blow to the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Would Be, Clinton

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.10, Penguin

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• Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Ashes

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• What was scattered, gathers.
  What was gathered, blows away

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational

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• I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it.

  Sarah Polley

  Running, Crazy, Zombie

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Government, Wind, People

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows.  Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion.  It turns your boat in circles.  Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.

  Mary Pipher

  Dream, Stars, Wind

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.229, Penguin

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

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• Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.

  Matt Rees

  Cells, People, Trying

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• It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.

  Royal Cortissoz

  Crush, Dirty, Men

  Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”

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• You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.

  Peter Gabriel

  Fire, Expression, Candle

  Song: Biko

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• I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

  Miles Davis

  Trying, Trumpets, Minding My Own Business

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• Don't need a gun to blow your mind

  John Lennon

  Gun, Mind, Needs

  Song: Whatever Gets You Thru The Night, Album: Power To The People: The Hits

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• You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.

  Orrin Hatch

  Children, People, Giving

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. August 13, 2010.

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• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  Bill Withers

  Summer, Nice, Compassion

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• Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Brother, Humanity, Cost

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, Volume 2, p. 1121,

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• Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in Jazz. But literally - he blows up a storm .

  Frank Rutter

  Men, Storm, Jazz

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• The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Humanity, Important, Firsts

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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• Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

  David Crystal

  Children, Taken, Kids

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• Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right

  Derrick Jensen

  Morning, Writing, Dams

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• There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On this site, you are a man; on the other side, you are a woman.' It's time for the winds of change to blow that line away. Simple.

  Kate Bornstein

  Simple, Men, Self

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• For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

  Iain Pears

  Men, Reputation, Breaths

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.404, Penguin

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