Bundles Quotes

• Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Salvation, Saved

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

  Tecumseh

  Strength, Being Strong, Break

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• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

  William James

  Giving, Realizing, Habit

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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• Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

  George Grosz

  Army, Soldier, Proud

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Sleep

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• I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Running, Children

  "The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations". Book edited by Hal Higdon, 2011.

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• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

  Roman Jakobson

  Running, Taken, Giving

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• If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

  Bill Kurtis

  Want, Too Much, Shots

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life Lesson, Experience, Genius

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• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

  Benjamin Franklin (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition”, p.11, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

  Anne Dudley

  Hard Work, Laughing, Oscars

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• A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

  Aesop

  Family, Teamwork, Father

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• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Teacher, Appreciation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

  William Butler Yeats

  Ideas, Breakfast, Poet

  William Butler Yeats (1994). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

  Tori Spelling

  Nerves, Irrational Fear, Irrational

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• One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

  Renee Fleming

  Airplane, Junk, Magazines

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, Simplicity, Taste

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• A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Men, Tools

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Teacher, Encouragement, Artist

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• Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust In God, Bounds

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.616, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Taken, Play

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