Fields Quotes - Page 35

• Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.

  Mary Roach

  Force Fields, Brain, Stranger

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.199, Canongate Books

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• The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

  Wim Crouwel

  Football, Games, Play

  "Beautiful Games: stylised football posters", www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.

  Barbara Brennan

  Body, Patterns, Firsts

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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• You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

  Clarence W. Barron

  Support, Widows, Financial

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• With the support of our vibrant web developer community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online.

  Gary Kovacs

  Two, Goal, People

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• When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Numbers, Discipline

  Frans Johansson (2006). “The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation”, p.2, Harvard Business Press

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• Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

  Ernst Mach

  Adaptation, Definite

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.

  Terence MacSwiney

  Battle, Principles, Use

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• Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Water, Promise

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.41, Gideon House Books

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• Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Office, Athletic

  Billy Graham (1995). “Secret of happiness, The”

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• The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'

  William Doyle

  Healthcare, Patient, Daily Life

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• I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.

  Terrell Owens

  Heart, People, Done

  "T.O. with Terrell Owens". Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Intellectual, Investing

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• The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

  Duke Snider

  Boys, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

  Duke Snider

  Air, Lovely, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

  Paul Fussell

  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

  Max Beckmann

  Spring, Flower, People

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• Civilisation never dies, it may change, but it is eternal. Where the paddy field is born on the dry river bed of Titash, there begins another civilisation.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Rivers, Bed, Dry

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• Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Hero, School, Boys

  "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.

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• I don't want to be just a face. I want to go out there and prove something on the field.

  Jennie Finch

  Want, Faces, Prove

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• It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. ... The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Pain, Punishment, Play

  "Jim Harbaugh comfortable in chaos" by Seth Wickersham, www.espn.com. October 02, 2014.

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• You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe.

  Ralph McGill

  Hate, People, Hatred

  Ralph McGill (1980). “The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns”, Cherokee Pub

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• Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

  "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type".

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