Heels Quotes - Page 16

• Summer treads on heels of spring.

  Horace

  Summer, Spring

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Girl, Mother, People

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.19, Vintage

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• We commend a horse for his strength, and sureness of foot, and not for his rich caparisons; a greyhound for his share of heels, not for his fine collar; a hawk for her wing, not for her jesses and bells. Why, in like manner, do we not value a man for what is properly his own? He has a great train, a beautiful palace, so much credit, so many thousand pounds a year, and all these are about him, but not in him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Horse

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• I can say that if you're a writer who happens to be a woman, you'll get a book cover that depicts a woman with no head, or a woman turning away, or a pair of high heels. You have to fight to not get stuck with these covers. In the U.S. women are chick-lit writers unless they prove otherwise, and that's frustrating.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Fighting, Stuck

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody, goodyYou met someone and now you know how it feels - goody, goody

  Johnny Mercer

  Mets, Feels, Know How

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• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Memories, Ambition

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

  Emma Thompson

  High Heels, Painful

  "Comfort is cool as flat shoes cut it in the fashion stakes" by Zoe Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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• I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

  Lena Dunham

  High Heels, Shoes, Guy

  "Women of the Year 2012: Check Out the Best Dressed Stars on the Red Carpet", www.glamour.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I hate high heels, more than anything.

  Cara Delevingne

  Hate, High Heels, I Hate

  "Why 2014 was the year trainers went high fashion" by Rosie Swash, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2014.

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• Literally, these [heels] slow you down.

  Kristen Stewart

  High Heels

  "It’s OK To Hate Wearing High Heels (Just Take It From These Famous Women)" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2014.

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• I do not improvise in heels.

  Amy Poehler

  High Heels

  "Amy Poehler: ‘I Do Not Improvise In Heels’" By Lauren Leibowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2013.

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• [Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, High Heels, Please

  "It’s OK To Hate Wearing High Heels (Just Take It From These Famous Women)" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2014.

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• When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  High Heels, Blood, Feet

  "It’s OK To Hate Wearing High Heels (Just Take It From These Famous Women)" By Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2014.

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• What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Dog, Perseverance, Moving

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• I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.

  Nikki Haley

  Fashion, Ammunition, Statements

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• I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Mom, Hair, High Heels

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• Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;
  There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!
  As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,
  And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe,
  We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,
  The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.

  Robert W. Service

  Dream, Men, Years

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.50, Dundurn

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• A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.

  Anne Desclos

  Powerful, Women, Love Is

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• Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

  Che Guevara

  Ribs, Arms, Shields

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.384, Ocean Press

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• The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

  Saadi

  Fate, World, Maps

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• I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

  Carine Roitfeld

  High Heels, Legs, Uniforms

  "Beauty and style secrets from our favourite French icons". www.stylist.co.uk.

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• A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reform, Reformation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays; with preface by Thomas Carlyle”, p.29

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• Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Thinking, Greed, Bucks

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• The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Breathing, He Man

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