Statues Quotes - Page 6

• If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, What the heck are you doing? but its ok if they dont understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.

  Buckethead

  Journey, People, Bags

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• The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.

  Michael Flynn

  Simple, White, Soul

  Michael Flynn (2006). “Eifelheim”, p.171, Macmillan

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• "Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept her lips tight together and she curved them up. "You know they've got teeth in there. Big, sharp, shiny teeth." "I didn't. But now I've got to worry about it."

  Nora Roberts

  Worry, Creepy, Together

  "Salvation in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, November 4, 2008.

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• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!

  Brigham Young

  Giving, Effort, Vision

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• Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

  Robert Breault

  Block, Character, Venus De Milo

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• I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

  Heinrich Heine

  Women, Eye, Yield

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

  Laini Taylor

  Bridges, Icons, Rose

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.

  Neal Shusterman

  Brother, Memories, Dark

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• The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

  Georg Buchner

  Hot, Fingers, Casts

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Events, Horizon

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• And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.

  J. K. Rowling

  Suits Of Armor, Castles, Done

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• Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Lying, Communication

  "Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R".

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• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

  George Orwell

  Party, Book, Politics

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Hot, Looks

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• Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Idols, Desire, Stones

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• I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Light

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• Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Men, Flesh

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For some people, it's running. For some people, it's affirmations. For me, it's photographs and drawings, and affirmations, and statues, and crystals. I fill my writing space and I fill my home with symbols of what I think of as higher energy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Running, Yoga, Home

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Real, Ocean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  Randolph Bourne

  Anger, Society, Likes

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

  Georges Simenon

  Brother, Character, Age

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• The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Voice, Appreciate, Taught

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Liberty

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