Bows Quotes - Page 29

• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Doe, Kind

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• Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Spring, Men

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1927). “The Hindú View of Life: Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, 1926”

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• The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Real, Humility

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• At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Temples, Lord

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• When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Heart, Hands

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• O God of earth and altar,
  Bow down and hear our cry,
  Our earthly rulers falter,
  Our people drift and die;
  The walls of gold entomb us,
  The swords of scorn divide,
  Take not thy thunder from us,
  But take away our pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Pride, People

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

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• When the stakes are high, bow down low.

  Beth Moore

  Lows, Stakes

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• Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Thinking, Needs, Littles

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Arrows, Soul

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• Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Brother, Pain

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• I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Thinking, Arrows

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• Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  School, Humility, Science

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Arrogance, Ifs

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• She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Inspiration, Fire, Ashes

  Sarah J. Maas (2014). “Heir of Fire”, p.362, A&C Black

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  James E. Faust

  Giving Up, Self Confidence, Numbers

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• Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.

  Libba Bray

  Plus, Affected

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Yoga, Love Is

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• The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Men, Return

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• if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
  one. It will not be a pansy heaven or
  a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but
  it will be a heaven of blackred roses
  my father will be(deep like a rose
  tall like a rose)
  standing near my
  swaying over her
  (silent)
  with eyes which are really petals and see
  nothing with the face of a poet really which
  is a flower and not a face with
  hands
  which whisper
  This is my beloved my
  (suddenly in sunlight
  he will bow,
  and the whole garden will bow)

  e. e. cummings

  Mother, Father, Flower

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.28, C.H.Beck

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• Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Justice, Council

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• Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

  Royal Robbins

  Order, Risk, Alive

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• Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

  Ovid

  Temptation, Leisure, Cupid

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