Tents Quotes - Page 7

• Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

  Stephen Covey

  War, Time Management, Planning

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• If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

  Robert Burns

  Faith, Coats, Holes

  Robert Burns (1841). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns; with a Memoir of the Author's Life and a Glossary”, p.188

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• Let's redefine scandal. Scandal is not who's dating who. Scandal is 1.2 million people living in tents in Haiti.

  Olivia Wilde

  People, Dating, Haiti

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• I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Noses

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Oh, I don't wear a bathing suit. I wear a tent when I go out.

  Greg Proops

  Suits, Bathing Suits, Bathing

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• You have access to the Tent Of Meeting.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Birthday, Night, Agriculture

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• You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

  John Oates

  Moving, Somewhere Else, Appreciate

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• No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Children, America

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, People, Bed

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• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Sleep

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• Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.

  Mark Canton

  Simple, Stories, Matter

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  Ma Jian

  Persistence, Two, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

  Francis Lawrence

  Animal, Light, Missing

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• Only in Southern California do camping grounds actually have wifi, so I was sitting in my tent and I started reading it on my computer, and I couldn't put it down. More importantly, I kept getting up in the middle of the night going, "Oh, this is cool," so I pitched them an idea that they seemed to like.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Reading, Night, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• When you are a screwed up person, you have a responsibility to keep your normal friends from getting walked on. 'Cos, how bad could you screw that up ? And don't say, Well, you could cause someone six months of physical therapy. 'Cos, hey, lots of times, those exercise take places in pools and nylon tents with little plastic balls. Fun places like that. And, she gets to park up really close for a while. Ha ha, oh, I'm the bad guy.

  Christopher Titus

  Fun, Responsibility, Exercise

  "Titus / Tommy's Girlfriend II". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

  Patsy Cline

  Doctors, Oxygen, Singers

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• Better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out, then to have them outside your tent pissing in.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Enemy

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• I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.

  Neneh Cherry

  Littles, Over It, Nomadic

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You can hike into the Yellowstone backcountry. You can camp in the Yellowstone backcountry. You can take food into the Yellowstone backcountry, and you're surrounded by grizzly bears. And it's - it's a very, very thrilling, peculiar situation. Every sound that you hear in the night, you wonder is this a grizzly bear coming to tear into my tent?

  David Quammen

  Night, Yellowstone, Tears

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

  David Quammen

  Lying, Reading, World

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

  Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

  God, Men, Self

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