Shakes Quotes - Page 26

• It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Sorry, People

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• A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

  Peter Jackson

  Beautiful, Pregnancy, Tree

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• When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.

  Tim Finn

  Ocean, Healing, Passion

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• In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would present conflicting codes all the time, just to shake this fixation people had on how to attain liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Study, Breaking Down

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• The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here will cross over and become capitalists and the capitalists will cross over and become laborers. Would to God they would shake hands while they are crossing, these from one side, and those from the other side.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Distance, Hands, Bridges

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Other Cultures, Land

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• Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Tongue, Tomorrow

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

  William Shakespeare

  Medicine, Heaven, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.501

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• O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Sleep, Voice

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Dream, Light, Rose

  'Dream-Pedlary'

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• Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Tree, Fruit, Unheard

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

  Henry Vaughan

  Christmas, Light, Breathing

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.119

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• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Bird, Skins

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Fall, Years, Gold

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.

  Darrell Bock

  Jesus, Reflection, Rejection

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• Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.

  Robert Genn

  Blow, Miracle, Insecurity

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• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Children, Mean, Men

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

  Will Rogers

  Dog, America, Bones

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory

  Harold B. Lee

  Names, Heaven, Darkness

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• Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jobs, Teaching, Love You

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• Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Laughter, People, Cynical

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
  Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
  To shake his sapient head, and give
  The ill he cannot cure a name.

  Matthew Arnold

  Doctors, Names, Medicine

  'A Wish' (1867)

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• In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Fear, Window Panes, People

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2011). “In Desert and Wilderness (橫越撒哈拉)”, p.607, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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