Shakes Quotes

• Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

  Jean Cocteau

  Light, Poetry, Roles

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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• An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Literature, May

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1969, ShandonPress

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• Life is full of all sorts of people. You just need to know which hands to shake, which hands to hold and which hands to let go.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Letting Go, Hands

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• Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Mistake

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.60, Bantam

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• When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Country

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
  And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Art, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Is

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• I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

  Chris Bosh

  Real, Conscious, Stills

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• Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Devil, Sound, Hell

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.165, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.

  Dan Stevens

  Kids, Darkness, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.

  Mira Sorvino

  Children, Real, Dark

  "Inside Mira Sorvino". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 22, 2014.

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• The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

  Mark Akenside

  Fate, Blow, Fire

  Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”

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• The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Able, Changes In History

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.165, Penguin

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• I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

  Ann Aguirre

  Bears, Done, Scar

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.25, Penguin

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• Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dancer, Calendars, Legs

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• I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with." "So of course you immediately came down.

  James Patterson

  Angel, Tunnels, Water

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• I'm a lightweight easy to fall easy to break With every move my whole world shakes Keep me from falling apart

  Demi Lovato

  Moving, Fall, World

  Song: Lightweight, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Silly, Men, Thinking

  "A Grief Observed".

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• You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.

  John Banville

  Rain, Heart, Night

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• You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Hands, Want

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• I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

  Kate Morton

  Children, Air, Woe

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

  Yann Martel

  Creating, Long, Darkness

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.103, Canongate Books

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• That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love You, Destiny, Long

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