Sticks Quotes - Page 22

• When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

  Milarepa

  Running, Dog, Chasing

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• Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, Faith In God, Belief

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.74, Discovery House

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• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  Zayn Malik

  Girl, Home, Boys

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

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• Stick around. I’m full of bad ideas.

  Isaac

  Ideas, Bad Ideas

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• I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Smell, Doe

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• When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

  Gary Zukav

  Forgiving, You Choose

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Nov 19, 2015

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• Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

  Ann Voskamp

  Soul, Yardsticks, Beaten

  "How the Hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us ... (and Our Daughters): The Measuring Stick Principle" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

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• We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Ideas, America

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• A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even though they are for children." "But they make no sense!" Summer protested "Ah, well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

  Katherine Catmull

  Summer, Children, Wall

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Adventure, Ideas

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• Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Principles, Flexible, Flexibility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Wally Schirra

  Dad, Airplane, Hands

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• What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Eternity, Hours, Ifs

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• A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.

  Dave Grohl

  Wall, Responsibility, Mean

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• I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

  Bode Miller

  Couple, Together, Doe

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• You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

  Jennifer Garner

  Scripts

  "Jennifer Garner Interview - THE KINGDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

  Robert Browning

  Justice, Coats, Silver

  "The Lost Leader" l. 1 (1845). Refers to William Wordsworth.

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• Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

  Amy Poehler

  Brain, Tantrums, May

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

  Jemima Kirke

  Art, Priorities, Forever

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

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

  Tim Rice

  Fighting, Fishing, Obsessed

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• I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out.

  Randy Quaid

  Meaningful, One Time

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• The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  Karl Shapiro

  Real, Race, Hands

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• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Ideas, Brilliant, Found

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• When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Hair, Two

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