Shakes Quotes - Page 8

• Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.

  Frances Wright

  Law, Arrogance, Curiosity

  Frances Wright (1831). “Course of Popular Lectures,”, p.132

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• There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Dream, Trying, Way

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• You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

  SebastiAn

  Dream, Giving Up, Fighting

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• I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

  Nina Bawden

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, seven and a half percent.

  Taylor Lautner

  Mcdonalds, Two, Work Out

  "Taylor Lautner finds his inner-wolf in ‘Twilight Saga: New Moon’". Interview with Gregory Ellwood, uproxx.com. July 17, 2009.

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• 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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• When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Wise, Peace, Kings

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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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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

  Walter Scott

  Love, Rivers, Said

  Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake”, p.255

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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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• Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Kissing, Hands

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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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• A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fire, Rocks, Sky

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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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• Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sorrow, Yellow Leaves

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

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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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