Palms Quotes - Page 17

• Obligations may be universal or particular.

  Tom G. Palmer

  May, Obligation, Particular

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.36, Cato Institute

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• Study first, play afterwards.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Play, Firsts, Study

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• Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

  Robert Palmer

  Dancing, Musical, Trying

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• The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Government, Tickets, Form

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.403, Cato Institute

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• Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.

  Calvin Trillin

  Aunt, People, Trying

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Complicated

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

  Ellen Bass

  Hope, Grief, Love You

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• A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Kissing, Clouds, Years

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.44, Zondervan

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• That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Inspirational, Attitude, Ocean

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Real, Taken, Heart

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• What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

  Doris Lessing

  Lonely, Cat, Eye

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• Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Hands, Jewels, Soul

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• we do not explain my husband's insane abuse
  and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
  or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
  Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

  Anne Sexton

  Family, Husband, Father

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• ...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

  David Fairchild

  Children, Garden, Cities

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• Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Light, Glowing, Tree

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• The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Successful, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

  Horatio Nelson

  Gains, Merit

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• I want to give you something.” He slid the ring off his finger. “Up until this week, I’ve never wanted anything more in my life than to wear this ring. Not as a piece of jewelry, but because I thought I could find meaning in saving others, in being a hero. But the meaning I’ve finally found in my life is from meeting you.” He set the ring on the palm of his hand and held it out. “I want you to have it.

  Scott Speer

  Hero, Hands, Giving

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• What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

  Edward Young

  Mistake, Men, Bears

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.16

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• The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Roots, Attachment, Tree

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• America was the funder of petro-dictatorships. We treated all these countries as basically big, large gas stations: Libya station, Iraq station, Iran station, Egypt station, Syria station, and all we asked of them were three things: Keep your palms open, your prices low and don't bother Israel too much, and you can do whatever you want to your own people.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Israel, Egypt

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• Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.

  Blake Shelton

  Beach, Tree, Shade

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• Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.

  Robert Palmer

  World, Addresses, Internet

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• When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Heart, Hands

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