Fronts Quotes - Page 40

• Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

  Pearl Cleage

  War, Domestic Violence, Lines

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

  Beatrice Webb

  Men, Benches, May

  Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”

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• Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Tripping, Behinds

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• We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  Maureen Duffy

  Morning, Knowledge, Humility

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• The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

  Joseph Stalin

  Leadership, Art, Fighting

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• Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, America

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Commencement Address At University Of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, www1.nyc.gov. May 11, 2007.

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• The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

  Mimi Pond

  Party, Color, White

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• There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Europe, Funny Things, White

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• Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.

  Chris Hondros

  Photography, News, Dry

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• Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

  Sissela Bok

  Long, Sitting, May

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• If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap to it when you were sure no one was looking, and it was as though you had done it in front of a mirror.

  Paula Fox

  Dog, Mirrors, Done

  "News from the World: Stories and Essays". Book by Paula Fox, 2011.

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• Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Exercise, Simple, Shoes

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.81, Penguin

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• As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

  Wanda Sykes

  Marriage, Car, Motorcycle

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• If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.

  Arabella Weir

  People, Weight, Saws

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Wall, Moving

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• You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

  Ronan Farrow

  Goats, Bigs, Stomach

  "Ronan Farrow: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

  Patsy Kelly

  Gossip, Beats

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• You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

  Ali Vincent

  Health, Feet, Effort

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.165, Rodale

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."

  Marianne Williamson

  Unconditional Love, Doors, Keys

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 15, 2011

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• As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.

  Tom Lehrer

  Girl, Example, Youth

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• When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Sadness, Hot, Someone You Love

  "Fig Pudding". Book by Ralph Fletcher, September 3, 2013.

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• Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

  Hugh Elliot

  Death, Doors, Way

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• I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

  Jet Li

  Girl, People, Brave

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

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