Bars Quotes - Page 30

• People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign, you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

  David Brooks

  Two, People, Guy

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• Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories put to it; set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Mistake, Heart

  "The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Heaven".

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• I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

  Gary Shteyngart

  Falling In Love, Men, People

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.116, Random House

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• I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
  I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

  Lil Wayne

  Depression, Stars, Xanax

  Song: I Feel Like Dying, Album: THE DROUGHT IS OVER PT.2 (CARTER 3 SESSIONS MIXTAPE)

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• There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.

  Ani DiFranco

  Night, America, Drug

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

  James Prescott Joule

  Life, Science, Iron

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• When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
  And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

  Horace

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "The Works of Horace".

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• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lonely, Taken, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Drinking, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Drinking, Golf, Bills

  Jimmy Demaret (1954). “My Partner, Ben Hogan”, New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill Book Company

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• I think it's about time we legalize marijuana... We either put people who are smoking marijuana behind bars or we legalize it, but this little game we are playing in the middle is not helping us, it is not helping Mexico and it is causing massive violence on our southern border... Fifty percent of the money going to these cartels is coming just from marijuana coming across our border.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Marijuana, Games

  "Glenn Beck Calls for the Repeal of Federal Drug Prohibition" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."

  Cilla Black

  Bullying, Gay, Blood

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• Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.

  Martin Carver

  Inspirational, Team, Needs

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• I say to my colleagues that I sit alongside them in committee, in the bars and in the tea room, and I queue alongside them in the division lobby. But when it comes to marriage, they are asking me to stand apart and to join a separate queue. I ask my colleagues, if I am equal in this house, to give me every opportunity to be equal.

  Mike Freer

  Gay, Opportunity, Giving

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• I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.

  Russ Rose

  Volleyball, Trying, Want

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• I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

  Yves Klein

  Lines, Painting, Prison

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

  Doris Roberts

  Dog, Eight, Inmates

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

  Eric Clapton

  Summer, Suicide, Memories

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciate, Crucible, Criticism

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• Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

  Roddy Piper

  Mean, Wrestling, Gertrude

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• Jake [Roberts] is feeling a little under the weather. He has bar-thritis. That's when because stiffin' a different joint every night.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wrestling, Night, Weather

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• I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Song, Voice

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• Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

  Dennis Miller

  Sports, Football, Talking

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