Covered Quotes - Page 28

• The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

  Winston Churchill

  Loyalty, Mistake, Sleep

  'The Second World War' vol. 2 (1949) ch. 1

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• When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

  Samuel Ullman

  Ice, Long, Snow

  "Inspired Economics" by Margaret Mason, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 1990.

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• Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

  Ray Stevens

  Beautiful, Summer, Nature

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• My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Passion, Eye, Journey

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

  Richard Hough

  Men, Dust, Sea

  Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

  Dani Shapiro

  Beach, Rose, Wish

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.60, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Sweet, Art

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• Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

  Jim Lehrer

  Years, Stories, Gray

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Skins, Dishes, Humans

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• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  Kajol

  Men, Ankles, Sari

  "In today's cinema, it is difficult to say who the heroine is and who is the vamp: Tanuja in conversation with daughter Kajol". Interview with Prachi Bhuchar and Prachi Rege, indiatoday.intoday.in. December 14, 2012.

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Progress Of Society, Doe

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• ... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

  Irving Stone

  Painting, Canvas, Reason

  Irving Stone (1937). “Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh”

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• I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

  Prince Charles

  Two, Red, Sometimes

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

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• People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the circumstances of life to break their ideal. To fall beneath one's ideal is to lose one's track in life; then confusion rises in the mind, and that light which one should hold high becomes covered and obscured, so that it cannot shine out to light one's path.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Fall, Light, People

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• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Cutting, Irrelevance

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• I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.

  Mac Miller

  Tattoo, Favorite Places, Faces

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• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

  Eli Roth

  Jobs, Home, Blood

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

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• To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Doors, Blood

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• I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

  Richard Thompson

  Funny, Inspiring, Nice

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• As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

  Richard Branson

  Health, Inspire, Risk

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• I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

  Warren Buffett

  Wind Farms, Law, Energy

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• Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

  Hilda Doolittle

  Cities, Venice, Gold

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.556, New Directions Publishing

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• To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Average, Sea

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