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• I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

  John Updike

  Running, Golf, Opportunity

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• Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Black, Shaving, Size

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter X, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

  Edward Young

  Fame, Satire, Recoil

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.222

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• I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Baby, Eye, Brain

  Allison Winn Scotch (2008). “Time of My Life: A Novel”, p.12, Broadway Books

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• If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Splits, May

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Adversity, Fire

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• [Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the show. That's what makes it unique, that's what makes it special and different and ground-breaking. No one has attempted this before on American television.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Unique, Two

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Grain, Happens

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.80, Macmillan

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• When you chop wood, splinters fly

  Joseph Stalin

  Woods

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• It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able to recover from the blow, would disappear in the whirlpools on five continents, lose their national identity, and aptitude to be a political factor. But we, as a nation and as a state, were able to reappear at the international arena to affirm that we continue our eternal journey and that we are determined not to allow for such a crime to ever happen again.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Blow, Journey, Political

  President Serzh Sargsyan's Address on the Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, April 24, 2010.

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• I think the biggest statement we can make as men, not as black men, as men, is to stick together and show how strong we are as a group. Not splinter. Not walk. It's easy to protest. The protest will be in our play.

  Doc Rivers

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Wish, Gestures

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.149, Paulist Press

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• Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s relentless efforts to splinter the family and to undermine the significance of temple ordinances, which bind the family together for eternity. The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment in mortality.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Two, Effort

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Men, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.

  Paula Rego

  Real, Fall, Dust

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

  Matthew Sharpe

  Heart, Ice, Lava

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• Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.

  Saul Bellow

  Glasses, Years, Parent

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.492, Penguin

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• Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it—a heart ringing? But when you touch me, that is what it is like, as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Heart, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.

  Conrad Aiken

  Thinking, Littles, Tiny

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• The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung filled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Air, Blood, Feelings

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Writing, Doors, Noses

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• By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Likes, Sun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.34, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Heart, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

  Mark Nepo

  Cutting, Glimpse, Way

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.16, Conari Press

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• and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Blow, Moon, Shadow

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “Dreaming of Amelia”, p.578, Pan Macmillan

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