Dropping Quotes

• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

  Plutarch

  Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

  George Wald

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Enemy, Wish

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Dust, Flames

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

  James S. Coleman

  Girl, School, Boys

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Survivor

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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• One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

  John Zorn

  Tired, Labels, Reason

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• There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

  Donna Tartt

  Couple, Years, Expectations

  "Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of 'The Little Friend'". Random House interview, www.randomhouse.com. October, 2003.

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• I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

  George McGovern

  Tickets, Intention, Percent

  "Former Senator, Vice Presidential Nominee Thomas Eagleton Dead at 77", www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2007.

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• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  Barbara Walters

  Children, Sleep, Self

  "Tomorrow when Barbara Walters exits ‘The View,’ we say bye to Baba Wawa" by Marc Silver, www.washingtonpost.com. May 15, 2014.

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• I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

  John Lee Hooker

  People, Trying, Clubs

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• You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

  George Whitefield

  Heart, Speak, Silent

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.57

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• I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Wish, Talent, Clutter

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• But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Ideas, Theatre, Courses

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• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Birthday, San Francisco, Giving

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• I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

  David Carradine

  Regret, Dropping Acid, Littles

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• In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.

  Sarah Chalke

  Taken, School, Roles

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• It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Names, People, Drunk

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• The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

  Dana Delany

  Risk, Television, Advertising

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• You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

  Bill Cartwright

  Team, Talking, Games

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• After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Couple, Play, Work Out

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• According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Adults, Lasts, September

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