Pieces Quotes - Page 21

• The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

  Robert Boyle

  Book, Discovery, Waiting

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• It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Events, News

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". 1922.

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• Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.

  Thomas Berry

  Integrity, Self, Order

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• What a piece of work is a man

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Teacher, Laughter

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• As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Girl, Powerful

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• His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.

  Johann Pachelbel

  Fame, Canon, Known

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• Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.

  Blackbeard

  Cutting, Pirate, Boards

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• They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Looks, Corn

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• I just made up my mind that I was going to lose my teeth and have my face cut to pieces.

  Johnny Bower

  Sports, Hockey, Cutting

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• One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

  Johannes Brahms

  Life And Love, Finishing, Half

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• You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eagles, Forks, Shelves

  J. R. R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1982). “The Hobbit Or There and Back Again”, Del Rey

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• My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

  Robert Menzies

  Leadership, Education, Learning

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• I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.

  Jenji Kohan

  Country, Badass, Space

  "'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 13, 2013.

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• There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to make another Dances With Wolves, because it's not an Indian movie. When Indians portray themselves, then we have a different perspective. I've been asked about making period pieces but I've never read one that wasn't about guilt, and I'm not trying to make a guilt film.

  Chris Eyre

  Thinking, Media, Perspective

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• Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.

  Gough Whitlam

  Children, Memorable, Hands

  Gough Whitlam's Gurindji Land Ceremony speech, August 16, 1975.

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• Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Morning, Ideas, Doe

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• Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

  Daniel Inouye

  Powerful, Military, War

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Both Christian and Adrian had worried there would be some piece of Strigoi left in him, but their fears had been about violence and bloodshed. No one would have guessed this: that living as a Strigoi had hardened his heart, killing any chance of him loving anyone. Killing any chance of him loving me. And I was pretty sure that if that was the case, then part of me would die too.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Heart, Would Be

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1042, Penguin

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• There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

  Ann Brashares

  Parent, Slides, Sometimes

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• Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives “breaking your heart” a new meaning.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Falling In Love, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.419, Penguin UK

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• Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece

  Shel Silverstein

  Missing Piece

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• Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Two, Broken

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• I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Three, Furniture

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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