Sheets Quotes - Page 9

• What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Anchors, Principles

  Speech, Peoria, Ill., 16 Oct. 1854

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• How it pours, pours, pours,
  In a never-ending sheet!
  How it drives beneath the doors!
  How it soaks the passer's feet!
  How it rattles on the shutter!
  How it rumples up the lawn!
  How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter,
  From darkness until dawn.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Rain, Doors, Rivers

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

  Eric Gurney

  Mistake, Cat, Animal

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

  Felix Morley

  Responsibility, Liberty, Paper

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• I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiration, School, Boys

  "Kofi Annan discusses Bolton, scandal, Iraq". Interview with Barbara Slavin, www.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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• Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

  Joy Hester

  Running, Wisdom, White

  Joy Hester, Sunday Reed (1997). “Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed”

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• There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

  Andrew Bird

  Practice, Comforting, Rooms

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• I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

  James Badge Dale

  Cutting, Half, Window

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• I passionately disagreed with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to bail out the banks by using a public fund called the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to help banks take toxic assets off their balance sheets. I argued that it would be much better to put the money where the hole was and replenish the equity of the banks themselves.

  George Soros

  Balance, Toxic, Relief

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• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

  Lester R. Brown

  Ice, Sea, Civilization

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• The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Issues, Years, Risk

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• I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
  I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

  Eminem

  Real, Air, Hip Hop

  Song: Bad Meets Evil part II, Album: The Slim Shady LP, 1999

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• [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Distribution Of Power, Anchors, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Snacks, Pieces, Six

  "What Chrissy Teigen Eats (Almost) Every Day" by Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Morning, Mean, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Jack Dawson". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. November 18, 1997.

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• To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs.

  Jessica Simpson

  Men, Lots Of Money, I Can

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• She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kings, Two, Bed

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• There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

  Joel Edgerton

  Team, Feelings, Energy

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

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• Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

  Pete Townshend

  Running, Boys, Littles

  Song: Rough Boys, Album: Empty Glass, 2006

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• I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

  Tori Amos

  Dirty, Low Self Esteem, Savior

  Song: Crucify, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

  David Allan Coe

  Infidelity, Praying, Adultery

  Song: Now I Lay Me Down To Cheat, 1995

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• No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Singing, President

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• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  Frank Iero

  Mean, Player, Practice

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• I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Nice, Luxury, Poor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

  Anne Sexton

  Winter, Clothes, Snow

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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