Shaking Quotes - Page 13

• There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Hands, Brave, Peaceful

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1949). “Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales”

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• But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Success, Encouragement, Fall

  'Answered, for Lord William Hamilton' in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' (1861) vol. 2, p. 477

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• Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

  Stephen Levine

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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• True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

  Amy Harmon

  Life, Rocks, Wind

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• Every time I hit a shot, I feel like I am shaking hands with the flag stick.

  Moe Norman

  Hands, Flags, Sticks

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• I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, Friendly, Cactus

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• I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

  Ann Richards

  Government, Needs, Not Afraid

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• Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Communication, Needs

  Stanley Coren (2012). “How To Speak Dog”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Rocks, People, Bleeding

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• You want to do something for the Lord...do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though youre shaking in your boots, youre scared to death -- take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; its doing nothing when you feel afraid.

  Mother Angelica

  Grace, Needs, Boots

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• I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay."

  Jen Kirkman

  Hands, People, Comedian

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.  They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.  If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.  Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it?  And yet --!

  George Orwell

  Morning, Horse, Party

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.

  Will Hermes

  Hero, Men, Musical

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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• We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.

  Edward F Edinger

  Religious, Acceptance, Psych

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• The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Tired, Kissing

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• Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

  Lester Thurow

  Technology, Skills, Foundation

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• At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heaven, Aurora, Golden

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• We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

  R. D. Laing

  Age, Foundation, Answers

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

  Rollo May

  Flower, Order, Civilization

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Dream, Baby

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• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Eye, Animal

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

  Pat Paulsen

  Baby, Kissing, Hands

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• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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