Blow Quotes - Page 39

• The first blow is half the battle.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Battle, Firsts, Half

  'She Stoops to Conquer' (1773) act 2

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• I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

  Werner Herzog

  Sweet, Ideas, Dumb

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• At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth. And what is His nature? He is everywhere the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All Merciful. Thou art our Father. Thou art our beloved Friend.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Father, Rain

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.139, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blue, Wind, Land

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel”, p.229

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• I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  Song, Wind, Tree

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 22, 2014

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• Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own.

  John Prine

  Country, Jesus, Moving

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• Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flames, Inspire, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.105, Penguin

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• The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand, there is no way of ever knowing, when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Powerful, Blessed

  "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".

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• Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Wind, Age

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Knowing, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.37, Manonmani Publishers

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• The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Fire, Two

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

  Mark Twain

  Wind, House, Doubt

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Champion, Citizens

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.

  Jesse Jackson

  Airplane, Gun, Issues

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• Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.

  William Feather

  Motivational, People, Forgiving

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• Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Travel, Real

  Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Husband, Sacrifice

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• The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Commitment, Fire

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• Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every other atom will go out of balance. . . . The law can never be broken. Each atom is kept in its place. Each is weighed and measured and fulfils its [purpose] and place. Through His command the winds blow, the sun shines. Through His rule the worlds are kept in place. Through His orders death is sporting upon the earth. Just think of two or three Gods having a wrestling match in this world! It cannot be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Wrestling, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Intelligent, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Long, World

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Memories, Childhood, Forever

  Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.156, St. Martin's Press

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• The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

  Frank Sinatra

  Records, Way, Shows

  Song: My Way Frank Sinatra w Willie Nelson

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• Throw your stick and stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you're not gonna break my soul.

  Katy Perry

  Soul, Bombs, Stones

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• Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Cutting, Mind, Shadow

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