Shoulders Quotes - Page 36

• So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.

  Florence Littauer

  Encouragement, Simple, Thinking

  Florence Littauer (1989). “Silver Boxes: The Gift of Encouragement”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly - you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

  Kabir

  Spiritual, Vegetables, House

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

  A. E. Housman

  Friendship, Fire, Squares

  Quoted in Bernard Levin Hannibal's Footsteps (1985).

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• In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Strong, Morning, Hands

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• Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

  Damon Knight

  Taken, Should Have, Years

  Damon Knight (1986). “Man in the Tree”

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• Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

  Bhagat Singh

  Funeral, Life Is, Used

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• The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nation–not the advertised one–and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, there’s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just don’t care enough

  John Kuhn

  Teacher, Real, Fighting

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• My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I, him.

  Francis Cornford

  Love, Thinking, Hands

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• After about 25 medals, you run out of shoulder to put them on.

  George S. Day

  Running, Marine, Medal

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• A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Children, Dancing

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• I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Faces, Instant

  1605-6 Kent. King Lear, act 2, sc.2, l.91-3.

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• If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the kick of a dolphin, the reflexes of a cat. If you could have all these, you would have the body, you would have the tools. But you would not have greatness until you understand that the strongest muscle is the heart. To me, that's the soul of the Olympic Games.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Spring, Heart, Cat

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• Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

  Warren Moon

  Basketball, Football, Makeup

  "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

  Elizabeth May

  Circles, Pixies, Hell

  Elizabeth May (2014). “The Falconer: Book One of the Falconer Trilogy”, p.137, Chronicle Books

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• Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators,
  head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.

  Peter Lynch

  Tree, Heaven, Consistency

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a big relief off my shoulder.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Soccer, Relief, Bigs

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• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Writing, Character, Talking

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• It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Hands, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.207, North Point Press

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• I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• ...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

  Frederick Douglass

  Real, War, Army

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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  There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Real, War, Army

  "The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865".

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Real, Destiny

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• This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

  Elton John

  Soccer, Clubs, Headache

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• I'm getting tired of saying hello to Stan Smith and not getting any reply. I'm cocky and confident and maybe I'm too bullheaded sometimes, but I think I have some fan and player support. I know what the others say, but I'm not that obnoxious. I am not a punk. I'm 5' 10", 155 pounds. I've got broad shoulders and I can pack a punch. Most of these guys are windbags anyway. If they ever try anything with me, I'll be to the net fast.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tired, Cocky, Player

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• The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements are so infernally dull.... our business needs massive transfusions of talent. And talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, People, Community

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