Bows Quotes - Page 30

• The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Dresses, Quiet, Manners

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• You are wind in a stark tree,
  you are the stark tree unbent,
  you are a strung bow,
  you are an arrow.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wind, Arrows, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Morning, Men, World

  Douglas William Jerrold (1858). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit: Together with Selections, Chiefly from His Contributions to Journals, Intended to Illustrate His Opinions”, p.201

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• I with borrow'd silver shine,
  What you see is none of mine.
  First I show you but a quarter,
  Like the bow that guards the Tartar:
  Then the half, and then the whole,
  Ever dancing round the pole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Moon, Dancing, Shining

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.742

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• There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ceremony

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• My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Father

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• I am a Bible Christian and if an archangel with a wingspread as broad as a constellation shining like the sun were to come and offer me some new truth, I'd ask him for a reference. If he could not show me where it is found in the Bible, I would bow him out and say, I'm awfully sorry, you don't bring any references with you

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Sorry, Shining

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• If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, If There Is A God, Trying

  "Rebecca West, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Marina Warner, The Paris Review, No. 79, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1981.

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• Sometimes you have tons of money, and still you are miserable, you are not satisfied. The bow of gratitude and arrow of mercy will give you everything. Gratitude will turn your attitude into mercy, mercy will bring you dharma, and dharma will give you solid prosperity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Arrows

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• Better is to bow than break.

  John Heywood

  Prudence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• I value science--none can prize it more,
  It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
  Be it religious, as it ought to be,
  The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

  Abraham Coles

  Religious, Heart, Science

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

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