Cords Quotes - Page 6

• Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Meaningful, Strong, Evil

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• Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”

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• In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

  Isaac Williams

  Strong, Weakness, Way

  Isaac Williams (1842). “The Baptistery, Or The Way of Eternal Life by the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]”, p.120

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• Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Stopping, Flesh, Way

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VI, 28,

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• In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Motherhood, Umbilical Cord

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.

  Paulo Freire

  Cutting, Reality, Order

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Unity for Liberation, 1968.

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• The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Taken, Government

  "The Power Elite". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1956.

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• Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Children, Mistake, Women

  Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books

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• And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Love, Two, People

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Of Gravity & Angels”, p.34, Wesleyan University Press

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• It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

  James Nares

  Design, Balance, Umbilical Cord

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• You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Humorous, Mean

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.10, Booklassic

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• You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords." "Only for you.

  Darynda Jones

  Tendencies, Spinal Cord, Severe

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• Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

  Rachel Vincent

  Attachment, Hands, Puppets

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “With All My Soul”, p.196, Harlequin

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• Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Acceptance, Genius, Irresistible

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• It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

  Lucretius

  Strong, Way, Fool

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.153, Indiana University Press

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• I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Teacher, School, Glasses

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• A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.

  William McFee

  Country, Blow, Ideas

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins have never been born because they are still tied by an umbilical cord. Relationships between women - daughters, mothers, friends - are one of my strong interests.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.

  Charlie Sheen

  Baby, Umbilical Cord, Yeah

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• The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cutting, Thinking, Umbilical Cord

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• Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.

  Jo Baker

  Together, Needs, Sometimes

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• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  Rachael Ray

  Use, Way, Helping

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• Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.

  Rick Wakeman

  Two, Umbilical Cord, Band

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• Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

  Richard Neal

  Understanding, Lightning, Lines

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