Pierce Quotes - Page 6

• I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Beautiful, Black And White, Moon

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• Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

  Jane Pierce

  Political, Wish, Would Be

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• If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

  Laozi

  Country, Eye, People

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• The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Struggle, Dark, Veils

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

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• Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.

  Mao Zedong

  Song, Horse, Fall

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Lonely, Heart, Son

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• I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

  Russell Crowe

  Heart, Eye, Night

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

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• There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Heart, Two

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• Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

  Dan Millman

  Each Day, World, Body

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• Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

  Bill Simmons

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• For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Heart, Character

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.26, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.

  Winston Churchill

  Captains, Mystery, Moments

  Winston Churchill (1938). “Marlborough; his life and times”

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• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational Life, Philosophical, Humility

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• I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Men, Ties, Why Not

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

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• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Swans, Years, Dying

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• And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Swans, Two

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  "Darkfall: Book One Of The Legendsong". Book by Isobelle Carmody, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

  Adrienne Rich

  Reading, Mean, Multiple Choice

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• Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville; Quelle est cette langueur Qui penetre mon coeur? Then she looks up and without any warning she calls on me to translate it. I swallow hard, and try: "It's raining in my heart like it's raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?" Saying these words out loud, right in front of the whole class, makes me feel like I'm not wearing any clothes.

  Sonya Sones

  Rain, Reading, Heart

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• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Struggle, School

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• I’ll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your throat, drink from your blood, and then pierce your heart and laugh while your body explodes into dust. (Zephyra) Beautiful imagery. You should write for Hallmark. (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Believe, Writing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

  James Hastings

  Fear, Heaven, May

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• What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told you, there is this great power of Kundalini within you. She's the one, she passes through all these centres, enlightens them first of all - so your awareness gets enlightened - and when she pierces through Sahasrara, she joins you to this all-pervading power, which is knowledge, which is love, which is truth.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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