Pairs Quotes - Page 40

• Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Years, Ideas, Doe

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.260, Penguin

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• Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

  John Milton

  Happiness, May, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly looked again. This boat appeared to be manned by four skeletons. Their cheek bones stood out like knots, their ribs were clearly defined as if they were painted on. Every leg and arm muscle showed as taut as steel cabling. Four pairs of deep-set eyes peered at us, conveying 'the look.' The four men who were rowing that shell were a special breed of oarsmen known as 'lightweights'.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Eye, Past, Men

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• Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.

  Annie Oakley

  Friendship, Country, Dog

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  Ashley Benson

  Running, Dirty, Naughty

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

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• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Opposites

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• The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the whole Mecanique Celeste and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye. Let those who have Eyes look through him, then he may be useful.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, Enthusiasm, Wonder

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations.

  Wendell Berry

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.23, Counterpoint Press

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• Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

  Kyongho

  Shoes, Spirituality, Old Shoes

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• Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Heart, Tunnels, Swings

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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Fate, Hands

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.561, Bantam

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• Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

  Napoleon Hill

  Desire, Willpower, Irresistible

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.176, American Liberty Press

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• He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Magic

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, School, Army

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.63, A&C Black

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• I understand that if I really need my hair to be nice, now I hire someone to do it, and I understand that putting on a pair of heels really makes a difference.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Nice, Differences, Hair

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• A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

  Beth Moore

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.

  Denise Levertov

  Eye, Past, Echoes

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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• The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.

  Darren Shan

  Thinking, Firsts, Facts

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• The Rich arrived in pairs
  And also in Rolls Royces;
  They talked of their affairs
  In loud and strident voices...
  
  The Poor arrived in Fords,
  Whose features they resembled;
  They laughed to see so many Lords
  And Ladies all assembled.
  
  The People in Between
  Looked underdone and harassed,
  And our of place and mean,
  And Horribly embarrassed.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Mean, Voice, People

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Marriage, Smart, Men

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Awful

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• John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

  John Arbuthnot

  Science, Biographies, Cheeks

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Media, Acting

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• ... and later we'll have action from the men's cockles pairs.

  Sue Barker

  Men, Action, Cockles

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