Straws Quotes - Page 6

• The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Cutting, Men

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.20, Getty Publications

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• Climate experts say we should tell villagers in developing countries to reduce the amount of cooking smoke they generate to help fix global warming. You know, it's as if these people don't hate us enough already. I mean, they live in mud huts, they have thatch roofs, their clothes are made of straw. We pull up in a bunch of Humvees and SUVs going, 'Hey, you want to cut the smoke out of here?'

  Jay Leno

  Country, Hate, Mean

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• I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can make sure that criminals don't have guns in their hands. We can make certain that those who are mentally deranged are not getting a hold of handguns. We can trace guns that have been used in crimes to unscrupulous gun dealers that may be selling to straw purchasers and dumping them on the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Gun, Issues

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• You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Dog, Horse, Children

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• Don't condemn the gangbangers, they've got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws. Why? Because we don't have sensible gun legislation.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Strong, Stupid, Gun

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• God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

  John Donne

  Angel, Stones, Fairy

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons”, p.137

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• I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Play, Theatre, Experience

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• He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

  Thomas Aquinas

  Writing, Written, Seems

  "St. Thomas Aquinas on politics and ethics: a new translation, backgrounds, interpretations".

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• And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.

  Richard Baxter

  Block, Blow, Fire

  "The Christian directory".

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• For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Silly, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?

  Herman Cain

  Party, Winning, Guy

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• That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Men, Pondering

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• Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

  John Selden

  Air, Wind, May

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.80

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• I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim Jong-nam], this made be the straw that really does it. And as you know, just a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese stopped all coal imports from North Korea.So there are signs that are getting serious. I guess from the policy perspective from the U.S., I mean, we got to decide what`s important to us with China?

  Christopher R. Hill

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city,
  Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made,
  They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,)
  A music club and music warehouse pretty.

  Heinrich Heine

  Cities, Clubs, May

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.21

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• November’s days are thirty: November’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few care for the mixture of earth and water, Twig, leaf, flint, thorn, Straw, feather, all that men scorn, Pounded up and sodden by flood, Condemned as mud.

  Edward Thomas

  Nature, Dirty, Men

  Edward Thomas (2012). “Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.28, Other Press, LLC

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• When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Two, Pedestal

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• The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Tangled, Perception, Mind

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• A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Men, Names

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• Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
  The entire combustible world in one small room
  As though dried straw, and if we turn about
  The bare chimney is gone black out
  Because the work had finished in that flare.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Small Rooms, Black

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.110, Wordsworth Editions

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• The winter is made and you have to bear it,
  The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
  For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
  In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.211, Vintage

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• What is desire?--
  The impulse to make someone else complete?
  That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fire, Desire, Impulse

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.161, Anchor

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• Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

  Mary Astell

  Men, Vices, Want

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

  H. G. Wells

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

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• An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, May, Rogues

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