Blow Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.

  Joe Budden

  Hurt, Looks, Sometimes

  Song: 10 Mins, Album: Joe Budden, 2003

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• A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.

  L. William Seidman

  Safety, Nuclear, Earth

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• I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

  Franz Kafka

  Believe, Book, Doe

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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• But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

  Aeschylus

  Block, Fate, Hammers

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.370

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• Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

  Alice Walker

  Mystery, Busy, Intriguing

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.89, The New Press

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• Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers

  David X. Cohen

  Long, Cartoon, Conspiracy

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• The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

  Khalil

  Stars, Heart, Wind

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• I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Pulse, Hammers, Forests

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.

  David S. Baxter

  Real, Adversity, Tragedy

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• Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

  Alanis Morissette

  Life, Thinking, Gone

  Song: Isn't It Ironic, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

  Jim Cymbala

  Growing Up, Dry Up, Spirit

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• No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

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• A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

  Julie Murphy

  Girl, Bird, Males

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• When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strong, Storm, Trying

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• Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Strong, Grief, Fall

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• When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

  Emile Zola

  Criminal Mind, Truth Is, Choke

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• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

  Arthur Miller

  Wind, Heaven, Icy

  "The Crucible". Play by Arthur Miller, 1953.

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Knives, Decision, Weakness

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Rights, Government

  "A deadly franchise" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2003.

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• I am a feather for each wind that blows

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Feathers

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 153

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• The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Father, Night

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.671, Manonmani Publishers

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