Smooth Quotes - Page 10

• I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Science, Past, Achievement

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• There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Responsibility, Theatre

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• There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Clouds, Blue, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.439

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• True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

  John W. Davis

  Mistake, Stress, Eye

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• Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

  Melissa Coleman

  Beautiful, Fall, Blue

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• Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

  Bruce Sterling

  People, Belief, Wells

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• Take things always by their smooth handle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gratitude, Handle

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.424

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• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Bitter

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• Victor Oladipo is like a baby’s bottom – smooth and sometimes explosive.

  Clark Kellogg

  Baby, Sometimes, Bottom

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• I wouldn’t have taken him. Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth things will happen.

  Tony Dungy

  Taken, Believe, Should Have

  "Tony Dungy's Explanation For Why He Wouldn't Have Drafted Michael Sam Is Pure Hypocrisy" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Feet, Doe

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• Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song.

  Eunice Tietjens

  Friendship, Beautiful, Song

  Eunice Tietjens (1929). “Leaves in Windy Weather”

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

  Dennis Rodman

  Jobs, People, Guy

  "Grapevine: Nobel Peace Prize for Dennis Rodman?", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2013.

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• See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.

  Jerry Garcia

  Country, Men, Two

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• In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, still shines in our hearts with the inextinguishable light of Christ ... and when the sinner turns to the way of repentance the light smooths away every trace of the sins committed, clothing the former sinner in the garments of incorruption, spun of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. It is this acquisition of the Holy Spirit about which I have been speaking.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Father, Heart

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• I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

  Miriam Makeba

  One Day, Looks, Obstacles

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• The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

  John Gardner

  Fashion, Business, Coins

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost and found love, lost and found and lost love, lost and lost and lost love—some people were having no luck at all. The DJ sounds quick and smooth and after-shaved, the rest of the world a mess by comparison.

  Lorrie Moore

  Lost Love, Light, People

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• Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
  Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
  So Man, declining always, disappears
  In the weak circles of increasing years;
  And his short tumults of themselves compose,
  While flowing Time above his head does close.

  Andrew Marvell

  Men, Years, Circles

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.96

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• I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

  Sidney Hillman

  Running, Believe, Machines

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• All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Race, Car, India

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• Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.

  Toby Young

  Running, Games, People

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• The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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