Dropping Quotes - Page 8

• The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian.

  Matthew West

  Christian, Offering, Dressing Up

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• Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

  Bill Cosby

  Parent, Statistics, Calculus

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• Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Beespittle, droppings, hairs
  of beefur: all become honey.
  Virulent micro-organisms cannot
  survive in honey.

  Denise Levertov

  Hair, Honey, Organisms

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.213, New Directions Publishing

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• Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Ignorance, Character, Names

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity”, p.60, Thomas Nelson

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• I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

  Dan Savage

  Ephemeral, Radio, Bricks

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Home, Escaping

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• Any time you do an Adam Sandler film, it's kind of like a boys' club, because you're hanging out and there are guitars around, and basketballs and footballs and electric bikes and scooters and different people dropping by.

  Kevin Nealon

  Basketball, Football, Boys

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Vanity, Order

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• Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get. But usually he didn't bother the Gods, and he hoped the Gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, God, Atheist

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• We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Truth, Done

  Rudyard Kipling (2012). “Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them.

  Molly Ivins

  Bombs, World, Problem

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• When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mobility' means being able to reach the glass of water on the dresser while not breaking the baby's suction on the breast. 'Flexibility' means being able to push the Record function on the VCR without dropping the baby.

  Marni Jackson

  Mother, Baby, Mean

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• You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Night, Doors

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Constant dropping wears away stones

  Benjamin Franklin

  Achievement, Stones, Constant

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

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• Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

  Tom Hanks

  Our World, Differences, Choices

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• Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Lakes, Decision, Boulders

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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• About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.

  Evanna Lynch

  Girl, Names, Two

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• One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Lasts, Strange, Century

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”

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• Continual dropping wears away a stone.

  Lucretius

  Stones

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, (Book I, line 313),

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• To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to have walked through the doorway of fear, the dropping away of the anxious worried self...the vulnerability of happiness felt suddenly as a strength, a solace and a source, the claiming of our place in the living conversation.

  David Whyte

  Self, Joy, Doorways

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• I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

  Romain Gary

  Men, Race, Track

  Romain Gary (1961). “PROMISE AT DAWN”

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• The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.

  Jim Sinclair

  Guitar, Voice, People

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• What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.

  Rodney Mullen

  Creating, Community, Sake

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