Pieces Quotes - Page 33

• Love..its a missing puzzle piece waiting to be found and when you do find it you can finally figure out the picture life has to show you.

  Paige

  Love, Waiting, Missing

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• There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

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• Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sex, Mean, Men

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Determination, Character, Gay

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• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

  Plato

  Plato, Skins, Twelve

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• Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

  Heidi Marshall

  Choices, Made, Picks

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• To survive, you had to steer your course midstream, where the water was deepest and ran fastest, that you had to paddle fast, as fast as you could to stay there to stay still in the rushing current because the price of failure was to be washed up on the beach or dashed to pieces on the wharves.

  Melanie McGrath

  Beach, Failure, Rushing

  Melanie McGrath (2009). “Hopping”, p.23, HarperCollins UK

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• Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting of me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil - let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Cutting, Fire

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

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• When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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• Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Intellectual

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• One other specific piece of guidance we've offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole site’s rankings, and thus removing low quality pages, merging or improving the content of individual shallow pages into more useful pages, or moving low quality pages to a different domain could eventually help the rankings of your higher-quality content.

  Amit Singhal

  Moving, Impact, Quality

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• Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells anyway. I love that. Of course every story I tell is true. Completely true. Completely and utterly at least five-eighths of the way to being true, which is truer than any piece of lore and truer than most truths you'll hear.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Lying, Historical, Stories

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• To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.

  Lucy Corin

  Beautiful, Mean, Decision

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• Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.

  Edmund de Waal

  Memories, Two, Rivers

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• I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

  Hisham Matar

  Ribs, Mouths, Stones

  Hisham Matar (2011). “Anatomy of a Disappearance”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• The number one piece of advice I would share is to recruit a mentor. Find someone you admire who is at least one generation older, and has no direct authority over you. Lack of context and perspective can cost you months and years--with a bad career choice, an unwise relocation, short-term negotiating posture, and, generally speaking, sophomoric thinking.

  Bing Gordon

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Your love
  Should never be offered to the mouth of a
  Stranger,
  Only to someone
  Who has the valor and daring
  To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
  Then weave them into a blanket
  To protect you.

  Hafez

  Heart, Cutting, Knives

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• It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching me about records. I always thought vinyl was just intriguing. A black piece of wax that spins on a turntable and nothing but good sound comes from it. So that inspiration just keeps me going in hip-hop.

  Pete Rock

  Father, Teaching, Inspiration

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• These days you can't see who's in cahoots,
  Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Kkk, Hip Hop

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me,
  Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
  I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
  My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

  Killah Priest

  Rap, Two, Ivory

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• (Peace!) Piece of what?
  You can't mean P-E-A-C-E
  Cause I've seen people on the streets
  Shoot the next man and turn around and say 'peace.'
  But that's leaving people in pieces
  It's not what the meaning of peace is.

  Extra P

  Rap, Mean, Men

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• It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

  Mary Antin

  Real, Fall, Errors

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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