Cracks Quotes - Page 31

• Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Glasses, Ceilings, Able

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.

  Ellen Willis

  War, Kids, Jail

  Ellen Willis (2012). “No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays”, p.250, U of Minnesota Press

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• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Hurt, Pain, Passion

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• The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Confidence, Perfect, Want

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• Governor Chris Christie says if he's president, he will crack down on the sale of marijuana. However, that was before he was told it also comes in a brownie.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, President, Brownies

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• It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.

  Chris Rock

  Cutting, Years, World

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• Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Frustration, People

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass

  Malvina Reynolds

  Tired, Trying, Plant

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• Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.

  Todd Grisham

  Wwe, Care, Corn

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• I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

  Toni Onley

  Decent, Hospitals

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

  Guy Ritchie

  Death, Food, Sugar

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• Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

  Andre Gide

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

  Valerie Solanas

  Magic, Female, World

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Love Is

  "A Comic Sweet as Punch". www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2005.

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• God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

  Karen Walker

  Compassion, Play, Piano

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• Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

  Meg Cabot

  Arguing, Argument, Persuasive

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Mean Spirits”, p.34, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Church, Buying

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

  Hudson Stuck

  Mountain, Burial, Tombs

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• It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

  Ray Comfort

  Talent, Clean, Humans

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• High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.

  Jon Stewart

  School, People, Sometimes

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• A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

  Laozi

  Wind, Tree, Unyielding

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