Cages Quotes - Page 15

• When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Passion, Squirrels

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.397, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

  Olive Schreiner

  Doors, Bird, Sugar

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in the 1960s. Since then, the industry has expanded to Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the US, and Chile, but is dominated by the same multinational corporations. Wherever it is practiced, net-cage salmon farming is controversial and raises serious environmental concerns.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Scotland, Environmental

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• I am a bird of God's garden
  and I do not belong to this dusty world
  For a day or two they have put me here
  in this cage of my own body
  I did not come here of my own
  I will not return of my own
  to my own country.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Country, Islamic

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• Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Real, Hawks

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.526, New Directions Publishing

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• Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.

  Priscilla Welch

  Running, Bird, Made

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• The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

  Kenneth S. Deffeyes

  Thinking, Oil, Enough

  "Petroleum joyride almost over?". www.wired.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.

  Eddie Murphy

  Flower, Heart, Ribs

  FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Sep 13, 2013

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• For an actress who really hasn't gotten to act for two years, it was like letting a wild dog out of its cage.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Dog, Years, Two

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• I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!

  Daniel Ricciardo

  Animal, Waiting, Beast

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• Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Abuse, Pet, Pests

  "Inside the Minds of Animals" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

  John Sununu

  Should Have, Discipline, Wish

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• I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

  Jessica Simpson

  Blue, Ribs, Faces

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• Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might rethink such a stupid sentiment. I suppose the point is to wait for your love to come back to you voluntarily. I wonder if there’s a difference between setting something free and letting it go? I probably did it wrong. I should stop taking advice from my radio. I worry that you’re lost. I keep a heart-shaped cage unlocked for you, out on the street where it can easily be seen. So if one day you return at least you’ll have a place to stay.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stupid, Heart, Wings

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• You can't put this possum in a cage

  George Jones

  Possums

  Song: I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, 1992

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• They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

  Raegan Butcher

  Cells, Long, Rooms

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• That’s really sweet.” He grinned and reached for a plate. “Then I believe my mission is accomplished.” Laughing softly so I didn’t wake up Cage, I walked over and took the plate he was offering to me.

  Abbi Glines

  Sweet, Believe, Offering

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

  Rumi

  Bird, Feelings, Chests

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• Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.

  John Green

  Thinking, Opposites, Forever

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Religious, Reality, Spurgeon

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• Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Loss, Reflection

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• There's a thin line baby. A thing line between love and hate." -Cage York

  Abbi Glines

  Baby, Hate, Lines

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• I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope

  Sarah Kane

  Loss, Kissing, Years

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.218, A&C Black

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• He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it, the better it'll feel." His voice drops to a deep whisper. "We can rock it nice and slow or really, really fast."... "Do I have your permission to rock away and give you the ride of your life?" Why does it feel like he's secretly talking dirty to me? "Yeah, go ahead, rock it nice and hard," I say without thinking, then bite down on my lip as the dirty section of my brain catches up with me. Honestly, I didn't even know that side existed.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Fun, Nice, Dirty

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