Thick Quotes - Page 25

• Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Book, Moon, Night

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• I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Helping Others, Shadow, Looks

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.273, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

  Eudora Welty

  Respect, Writing, Abiding

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Foe, Seclusion

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

  Mark Nepo

  Clouds, Light, Sun

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.9, Conari Press

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• Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Life, Skulls, Dresses

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• Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Suits Of Armor, Skins, Naked

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

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• Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Pain, Heart

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• Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Skins, Rhinoceros

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• I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.

  Barack Obama

  Morning, Book, Tea

  "What's in Obama's 'book full of death'" By Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2015.

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• My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.

  Shailene Woodley

  Real, Grateful, School

  "Shailene Woodley: This is What Badass Looks Like". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.marieclaire.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.

  Katharine Weber

  Powerful, Sea, Sky

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown

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• The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.

  John Evelyn

  Dark, Clouds, Cities

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• At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a few years ago were just getting hot. The band jazzed at full blast. The air was so thick you could pick it up in handfulls and through it around like snowballs. The dance-floors were crowded with couples who couldn't do anything but wiggle hips and feet.

  Jimmy Durante

  Morning, Children, Couple

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• When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Struggle, High Heels, Feet

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• I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.

  Jenny Frost

  Girl, Fall, Drunk

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• I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone to faint-or start a riot."She laughed under her breath, and turned to go, stuffing her hands into her pockets and praying her fingers didn't fall off on the way home."Here," Kavill said, and she turned to find a pair of exquisite dove-gray suede gloves in his hands. "On the house. For many years of loyal patronage." His face bore its usual mask of polite calm and courtesy, but his brown eyes were bright. "And a gift-for a year spent without any gloves at all.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Love, Summer, Fall

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• Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Food, Volcanoes

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• The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

  Herodotus

  Hair, Skins, Noses

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Fate, Land, Needs

  Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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• You have to develop a very thick skin.

  Gabrielle

  Skins, Thick Skin

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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