Feet Quotes - Page 40

• If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Block

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• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

  Ross Macdonald

  Memories, Moving, Sea

  Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.

  Jon Krakauer

  Oxygen, Ice, Wind

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  Angus Wilson

  Pride, Self, Envy

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• The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only interested in writing great songs.

  Tom Morello

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Kings, Two, Brotherhood

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Charles Caleb Colton, p. 41, 1895.

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• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  Sam Waterston

  Fun, Play, Lawyer

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• A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

  Sol Wachtler

  Doe, Body, Married

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• Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

  Dennis Hastert

  Good Day, Judging, Trials

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• They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

  Edward Bennett Williams

  Needs, Lawyer, Toastmasters

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• As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

  Jay Sekulow

  Bills, Lawyer, Hours

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• I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

  Jay Sekulow

  Pay, Lawyer, Wells

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• Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

  Milton Friedman

  Average, Rivers, Risk

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• Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Kids, Toilets

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• Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

  Hazel Henderson

  Inspirational, Power, Waiting

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• How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Long

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• In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

  Brian Reid

  Success, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.

  William Ernest Bowman

  Average, Sea, Levels

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• An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Morning, Reading, Agree Upon

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• Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Sound, Hitting, Nine

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• It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives.? How can you preach His gospel with your tongues, when with hands, feet, and heart you are preaching the devil’s gospel, and setting up an antichrist by your practical unholiness?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Hands, Soul

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• The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, War, Heart

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.13

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• Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.

  Thomas Sankara

  Eye, People, Silence

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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