Shakes Quotes - Page 13

• My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Awakening, Awake

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

  John of the Cross

  Journey, Soul, Saint

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• If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

  Ruth Graham

  Happy, Bible, Christian

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• Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the diaconate. We must resolve that we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Prayer, Should Have, Office

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• No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

  Stephen King

  Life, Matter, Lasts

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• To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Ocean

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Crush, Children, Order

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• McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

  Martin Tyler

  Soccer, Football, Agreement

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• You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

  Rumi

  Reality, Doors, Wings

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 200, 1995.

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• At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

  John W. Gardner

  Children, Home, Apathy

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• Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
  shaking ancient oaks.

  Sappho

  Sexy, Wind, Soul

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• Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

  Judith Wright

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Judith Wright (1971). “Collected poems, 1942-1970”, Angus & Robertson

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• A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

  Antonin Artaud

  Real, Calm, Kind

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• The primary truth that any government will be able to stand on is that God is King, not man. The Lord created this world for His purpose, and only those who are aligned with His purpose will have the authority that can stand any pressures of the times we are entering. We can build our lives on this kingdom and nothing that happens will shake us.

  Rick Joyner

  Kings, Men, Purpose

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• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  Kate Smith

  Hockey, Ice Cream, Chocolate

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• Well, you stood there with me in the doorway, my hands shake, I'm not usually this way. But you pull me in and I'm a little more brave. It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, it's fearless.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Kissing, Hands

  Song: Fearless, Album: Fearless, 2008

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• I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

  Ruben Studdard

  Men, Opinion, Bother

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• Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Laughter, Grief, Delirium

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.13, Hawthorne Books

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• I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.

  Katherine Heigl

  Hair, Way, One Way

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• Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream. Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

  Avery Brooks

  Dream, Heart, People

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

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• If you don't like someone, don't shake their hand.

  Gary Neville

  Hands, Ifs

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• When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Fall, Tree, Bigs

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• Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

  Leon Trotsky

  Fighting, Order, Justice

  Leon Trotsky (1958). “Diary in Exile, 1935”, Cambridge : Harvard University Press

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• Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears:
  Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, my name is written on His hands.

  Charles Wesley

  Sacrifice, Hands, Names

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.1034, Ravenio Books

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• And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

  David Frum

  Men, History, Historical

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