Beads Quotes - Page 2

• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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• I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Glasses, Dozen

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.46

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• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Writing, Simple, Typewriters

  "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

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• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Breathing

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sex, Organization, Support

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.

  Richard Wilbur

  Sleep, Blow, Journey

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.237, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Crow, Enemy

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• Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Loyalty, Feelings, Fundamentals

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

  Sam Lipsyte

  Believe, Thinking, Bullshit

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Blood, Black

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• I felt the little beads of sweat pooling on my temple. Sit here and look nice...I could do that. But answer questions? I knew I wasn't going to win this little game; that wasn't the issue. I just really, really didn't want to look like a moron in front of the entire country.

  Kiera Cass

  Country, Nice, Winning

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• Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

  Tom Peters

  Sweat, Mastery, Able

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• You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

  Gerard Butler

  Fall, Eye, Sweat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

  Robertson Davies

  Triumph, Reason, Should

  "Haunted by Halloween". The New York Times, October 31, 1990.

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• I really try as hard as I can on the show. If people can't see my face, if they can't see my sweat beads or at least that I'm struggling, that I'm not just pretending or going through the motions, then who can blame them for thinking that it's some kind of ridiculous piss-take?

  John Maus

  Struggle, Thinking, Sweat

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Glasses, Leaving, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2774, Manonmani Publishers

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• I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

  Dylan Moran

  Moving, Trying, Target

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• I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

  George Payne Rainsford James

  Book, Envy, Monk

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• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Johannes Tauler

  Prayer, Believe, Psalms

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• The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Dew, Earth

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.315

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• She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess’s, and believe me, I’ve seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat—Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Sorry, Crazy

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.75, Penguin UK

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle

  Prayer, Healing, Past

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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