Shoulders Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Good Morning, Good Day, New Day

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• As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.

  Cat Deeley

  Eye, Feet, Long

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• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

  Charles Morgan

  Love, Godly, Men

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• It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

  Ethel Waters

  Yesterday, Joy, Looks

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• My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

  William Golding

  Past, Journey, Hiking

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• He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

  Nick Faldo

  Sports, Golf, Long

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• You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

  Justin Bieber

  Men, Fit, Bigger

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• Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Tree, Facts, Scientist

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• I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

  Randy Harrison

  Attention, Want, Down And

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• Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Over You, Roles

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• Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

  Latrell Sprewell

  Sports, Men, Years

  Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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• Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

  Fred Allen

  Life, Men, Objectivity

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• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  W. H. Auden

  Responsibility, Aristocracy, Poetic

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("American Poetry"), (p. 367), 1962.

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Our World, History, Evil

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Dog, Gun, Leader

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• Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Hate, Prodigies, Young

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Put your shoulder to the wheel.

  Aesop

  Life, Civilization, Fables

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Nature, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”

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• Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Bob, Follow Me

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• Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

  Edward Hoagland

  Sports, Men, Competition

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.33, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Giants, Classic, Dwarfs

  Quoted in John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159) See Robert Burton 1; Coleridge 30; Isaac Newton 1

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• The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

  Harlan Coben

  Voice, Attention, Might

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• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Winning

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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