Blow Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

  Robert Genn

  Miracle, Insecurity, Safe

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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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• Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Adversity, Wrestling

  Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, Fawcett Books

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• I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic. ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Mean, Thinking

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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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• All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

  Paddy Considine

  Thinking, People, Brain

  "Dark star". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2009.

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• What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person’s inner state; it is not an omniscient summary of you. Your reaction reflects your own inner state, and that can tell you which aspects of your own inner world are needy of attention. p.291

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Reflection, Attention, World

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• All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

  Wayne Muller

  Wind, Reeds, Emptiness

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.46, Bantam

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• Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.

  Philip Gulley

  Prayer, Rain, Fall

  Philip Gulley (2009). “Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Book, Wind, Pages

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