Lifting Quotes - Page 5

• Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Stars, Attitude

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• On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

  Aldo Leopold

  Sky, Wings, New Day

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.91, Oxford University Press

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• What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Voice, Philosopher

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

  Deb Caletti

  Importance

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• "I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone - not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee - push you around." She put her glasses back on and began randomly lifting up pieces of papers. At last, she found a pen and grinned triumphantly. "Now, then. What is your brother's name?"

  Richelle Mead

  Teacher, Brother, Coffee

  "Bloodlines". Book by Richelle Mead, August 23, 2011.

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• It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Selfish, Reality, Men

  H.P. Blavatsky (2007). “The Key to Theosophy by H.P. Blavatsky”, p.126, Theosophy Trust Books

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• If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

  Bill McKibben

  Mind, Spirit, Holy

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Moving, Eyebrows, Acting

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In terms of conditioning and lifting weights, if you can't do that on your own, you're in trouble anyways. You're a professional, you have to get that done yourself.

  Kerry Rhodes

  Lifting Weights, Done, Trouble

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• Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fall, Sunset, Eye

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".

  Sandra Cisneros

  Baby, Beer, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Food, Cooking, Spoons

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• I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

  Fred Armisen

  Night, People, Complaining

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January, 2012.

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• Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

  Patanjali

  Spiritual, Strong, Hate

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I do a program called Fast Twitch twice a week, basically my lifting and strength training, I'm working with a spine specialist, which has been a new addition for me since my surgery to really get some great support for my shoulder, and I really love the way my body feels. It takes the pressure off my lower back and kind of just shares duties, really, with my body.

  Kerri Walsh

  Support, Training, Way

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode - whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting.

  Steven C. Harper

  Jobs, Hate, Writing

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hair, Wind, Water

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

  D.T. Suzuki

  Space, Tea, Swallowing

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• True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Leadership, Inspire, Lifting Others

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• The FCC is considering lifting the ban on cellphone calls on planes. The good news is you'll be able to make calls during your flight. The bad news? The person sitting next to you will be able to make cellphone calls during yourflight.

  Jay Leno

  Fcc, News, Sitting

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• Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

  Jim Butcher

  Relationship, Block, Caring

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2343, Penguin

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• We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons, that has a continuous and robust inspection mechanism and that has snap-back provisions in case Iran violates the agreement. Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Agreement, Iran, Order

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.

  Christopher Moore

  Husband, Hands, Feet

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• Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

  Steve Toltz

  Relationship, Talking, Piano

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.329, Spiegel & Grau

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• I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

  Khaled Hosseini

  Son, America, Hassan

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.162, A&C Black

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