Pieces Quotes - Page 37

• Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
  climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Blessed, Sea, Ass

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• If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

  John Wilmot

  Grateful, Heart, Wine

  Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile, 1674.

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• In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.

  Miriam Makeba

  Song, New York, Land

  "Mama Africa" by Gamal Nkrumah. Profile. Al-Ahram Weekly, November, 2001.

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• Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Advice, Compliment, Saying Thank You

  Marshall Goldsmith (2008). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful”, p.118, Profile Books

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• I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

  James Frey

  Book, Writing, Style

  "The man who rewrote his life" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2006.

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• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Play, Figure Skating

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• What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

  Edgar Degas

  Two, Drawing, Different

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• One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. 'Let me have them,' said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker...had said: 'If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.'

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Morning, Jesus, Reading

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.41, Revell

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• A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

  Richie Benaud

  Earth, Building, Cricket

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

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• I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

  Tom Glazer

  Song, Passion, Writing

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• I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

  Jackie Robinson

  Baseball, Trophies, Break

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• I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Roots, Bricks

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• Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knives, Cake, Mind

  1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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• The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3589, Delphi Classics

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• You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because... Ooooh. Shiny.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Kids, Dessert First

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Nov 15, 2014

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• It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

  Gustav Mahler

  Achieve, Easier, Results

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• Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

  John Flavel

  Beautiful, Eye, Together

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• What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.

  John Flavel

  Children, Father, Son

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• Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

  Emmanuel Jal

  Heart, Mind, Paper

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• The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

  Lorrie Moore

  Mother, Father, Writing

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Aug 27, 2012

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• One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Advice, Mind

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• I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Children, Party, Moving

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11

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• While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Differences, Crow, Fiction

  "Alleghany Corp. v. Breswick & Co., 353 U.S. 151". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 22, 1957.

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• I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

  George Whitefield

  Cat, Eggs, Rotten

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