Smooth Quotes - Page 15

• What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

  Jocelyn Murray

  Teeth, Tongue

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• I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

  Antonia Fraser

  Hate, Book, Hair

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• You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

  Mos Def

  Believe, Names, President

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• May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  May, Christianity, Comfortable

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• When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Done, Movement

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.40, Rodale

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• Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

  Sivananda

  Cheer, Giving, Joy

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• I think the race went as well as it could and I drove well to finish sixth. The chassis is working better and through the corners we are more or less there; we'll move onto Europe and see if we can get further up the grid and keep improving. The weekend went pretty smooth for me until the end of the race, I don't know what happened, but the team will have a look at it.

  Daniel Ricciardo

  Team, Moving, Weekend

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• If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Let It Go, Machines

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Garden, Thinking, Eggplant

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books

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• His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

  Luigi Pulci

  Levels, Earth, Wheels

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• I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.

  Fergie

  Eye, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sight, Doors, Grace

  Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.330

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• Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

  Hafez

  Doors, Choices, Contentment

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• Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.

  Anne Bernays

  Nice, Writing, Oatmeal

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• A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

  William Gurnall

  Gun, Men, Knives

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• I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.

  Richard Armitage

  Thinking, Hands, President

  Hearing by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 2004.

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• Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

  Jim Croce

  Genius, Matter, Facts

  Song: Workin' At The Carwash Blues

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• True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

  Gene Pitney

  Love, Running, Pain

  Song: True Love Never Runs Smooth

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• Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.

  LL Cool J

  Family, Brother, Ugly

  Song: Father, Album: Phenomenon

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• The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

  Peter Gabriel

  Tears, Skins, Milk

  Song: Come Talk to Me, 1992

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• The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

  Kenny G

  Nice, Smooth Jazz, Adults

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

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• I've never gone for the smooth, suave Latin or French lover. That usually makes me think they're trying to pull one over on me.

  Tricia Helfer

  Latin, Thinking, Trying

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• The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Insecurity, Peaceful, Faults

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• After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

  Karen Mills

  Years, President, Transition

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• Pause and remember - The spiritual path is not always going to be smooth and easy. There are going to be difficult situations, hardships, losses and lessons. Don't lose faith along the way. You are exactly where you need to be.

  Jennifer Young

  Spiritual, Loss, Difficult Situations

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