Skins Quotes - Page 34

• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Weakness, Peculiar

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• The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.

  Havelock Ellis

  Character, Eye, Expression

  Havelock Ellis (2004). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex”, p.222, Ebookslib

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• What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Firsts, Achieve, Results

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• The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

  Karl Marx

  Hunting, Discovery, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.823, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Obedience to authority saves many skins

  Sophocles

  Obedience, Authority, Obedience To Authority

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• All over the world kids and women [are] getting killed right now over beliefs, this is silly to get angry over. If it bothers you just don’t attend I’m down for anything positive but this doesn’t affect our parties too much. I’m not the promoter, I actually had nothing to do with the rules being implemented, but I do agree with my team. And cause of who I am, I’m the de facto speaker. I have thick skin so u guys that consider yourself PLUR can attack me all you want it doesn’t bother me. I’m just here for the music.

  Diplo

  Team, Silly, Party

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• I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

  Christine Lagarde

  Country, Decision, Stronger

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feelings, Apathy, Lifetime

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

  Mooji

  Trust, Long, Enough

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• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Bird, World

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Touching, Why Not

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• Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

  Paul Klee

  Skeletons, People, Humanity

  Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub

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• Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

  Joanna Baillie

  Thinking, Feet, Soul

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.88

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• The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she's comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?

  Rosie Perez

  Latin, Opposites, White

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• Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

  Basil Bunting

  Home, Cities, Names

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Humidity, Quantity, Lungs

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• I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my knee, but the doctors were able to stitch it all back together. Luckily I didn't hurt my shoulder but I'm now at the point where the only thing on my body which isn't hurting is my bad shoulder.

  Jens Voigt

  Hurt, Cutting, Doctors

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• I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

  Alex Rodriguez

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Land, Support

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.

  Brigham Young

  Native American, Mean, Color

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• Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

  Robert E. Howard

  Civilization, Roaring, Red

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.

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• I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.

  Kit Carson

  Men, Ems, Red

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• The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

  Suetonius

  Foxes, Habit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Vespasianus", 16), 1922.

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• This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

  Jim Morrison

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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