Dropping Quotes - Page 13

• There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

  Prince Philip

  Nice, Years, Ancient

  "Duke of Edinburgh Admits: 'Bits Beginning to Drop Off Ancient Frame'" by Andrew Hough, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 10, 2011.

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• It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Letting Go, Truth

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• I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

  Kate Nash

  Letters, Speak, Used

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• Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

  Eddie Gibbs

  Jesus, Thinking, Church

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• The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

  Steve Jobs

  Class, Interesting, Dropping Out

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Art, Fall, Golf

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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• So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution.

  Peter Drucker

  Impact, Causes, Activity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.269, Routledge

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• In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

  Anne Rice

  Dropping Acid, Squares, Smoking

  "Other Incarnations Of the Vampire Author". Interview with Stewart Kellerman, www.nytimes.com. November 7, 1988.

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• It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

  Howard Zinn

  People, Common Sense, Doe

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

  Helen and Scott Nearing

  Vegetarianism, Cake, Healthy

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• Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

  George Sandys

  Rose, Lips

  George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349

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• I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Jobs, Drama, College

  "Intense Ornate". Amazon.co.uk interview, 1999.

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• One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sweet, Inspiration, Practice

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

  Tim League

  Summer, Numbers, Visionaries

  "Jason Eisener, Nacho Vigalondo, Ti West, and Many More Team for Horror Anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH" by Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

  George Orwell

  Party, Writing, Squares

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Eggs

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• No clouds are in the morning sky,
  The vapors hug the stream,
  Who says that life and love can die
  In all this northern gleam?
  At every turn the maples burn,
  The quail is whistling free,
  The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
  Are dropping for you and me.
  Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
  Hillyho!
  In the clear October morning.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Morning, Life And Love, Sky

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• There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really.

  Ice Cube

  Heart, Boys, Nuts

  "Ice Cube's Return to Gangsta [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

  Natasha Lyonne

  People, Life Is, Transient

  "Natasha Lyonne locked up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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• How easy it is to work for God when we are filled with His Spirit! His service is so sweet, so delightful; He is not a hard master. People talk about their being overworked and breaking down. It is not so. It is [over-worry] and care that wears people out.
  Why do so many workers break down? Not from overwork, but because there has been friction of the machinery; there hasn't been enough of the oil of the Spirit. Great engines have their machinery so arranged that where there is friction there is oil dropping on it all the time. It is a good thing for Christians to have plenty of oil.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Sweet, Oil

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• My body is dropping so fast, my gynecologist wears a hard hat.

  Joan Rivers

  Body, Gynecologists, Hats

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