Smooth Quotes - Page 13

• f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Law, Let It Go

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

  Pythagoras

  Adversity, Light, Darkness

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• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

  Felix Klein

  Teacher, Science, Long

  Felix Klein (2016). “Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint: Volume I: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis”, p.166, Springer

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• There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Feet, Skins

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 21, 2016

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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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• 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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• 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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• It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.

  Edward Furlong

  Lucky, Feels, Persons

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

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• After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dirty, Makeup, Sweat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

  Ann Hood

  Grief, Plot, Ends

  Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  Washington Irving

  Attitude, Sea, Weather

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.263, Penguin

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• My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

  Michio Kaku

  Mean, March, Internet

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

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• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lakes, Sky, White

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Cutting

  "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)

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• I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Reality, People, Feelings

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

  Horace

  Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

  China Mieville

  Goodbye, Healing, Loss

  "The Scar". Book by China Miéville, books.google.ru. August 28, 2008.

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• It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

  Henry Rono

  Running, Thinking, Faster

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• It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

  Claude Monet

  Running, Home, Learning

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• A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

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• Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Hope

  Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (2003). “Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet”, J P Tarcher

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