Stills Quotes - Page 9

• When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

  Leo Kottke

  Night, Thinking, People

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• I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

  Al Jourgensen

  Night, Clubs, Arena

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• We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Years, Goal, Lasts

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• I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Home, Tired

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• Great is the man who can overcome the
  world, but greater still is the man who can
  overcome himself, for he will have the world
  spinning on the palm of his hand.

  Confucius

  Men, Hands, Overcoming

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• Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

  Josef Albers

  Imagination, World, Mystery

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• I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

  Fred Rogers

  Caring, People, Scary Things

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.93, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mirrors

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• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• If a song was ever good, it's still good.

  Willie Nelson

  Song, Ifs

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• The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.

  Ken Wilber

  Past, Facts, Figures

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.261, Shambhala Publications

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• Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.

  Joel Osteen

  Taken, Thrones, May

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• No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Criminals, Doe

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• When you see a horse that’s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Sorry, Mean

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• Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fashion, Believe, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.202, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• And who knew?
  That an unlettered man from the middle of the desert,
  Would change the whole world from darkness into heaven
  You may have every title, every big shot degree,
  But you still can't explain: Alif-Laam-Meem

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Men, Heaven, Darkness

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• The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces, and losing because of time-trouble is no different to losing because of weak play -- it's still a zero on the score-sheet.

  John Nunn

  Zero, Games, Play

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• The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Government, Important, Bankers

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, 1981.

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• I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

  Heath Ledger

  Home, Kids, Journey

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• It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Spring, Book

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• A still tongue keeps a wise head.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Wise, Tongue

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.148, Ulysses Press

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• When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

  Krishna Das

  Letting Go, Unhappy, Desire

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2015

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• If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moving, Animal, Night

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• The warrior woman is filled with the courage, confidence, and inner strength to leave the past behind. She knows that there is no way to express herself fully when she is still carrying burdens that need to be released.

  Debbie Ford

  Warrior, Past, Inner Strength

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