Lashes Quotes

• If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Courage, Rocks, African American

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• Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Army, British Navy

  In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1

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• The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

  Sholem Asch

  Spiritual, Creativity, Men

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• I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Faces, Made

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

  Johann Most

  Men, Order, Hunger

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• Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Eye, Water

  William Cullen Bryant, “Oh Fairest Of The Rural Maids”

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• But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.

  Denise Richards

  Eyebrows, Curls, Lips

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• It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.

  Carmen Electra

  Looks, Mascara, Definite

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• I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Night, Names

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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• My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!

  Sarah Hyland

  Eye, Curls, Aliens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

  Kellie Pickler

  Real, Eye, Fake

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• I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.

  Bat for Lashes

  Clothes, Hair, Long

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

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• Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
  The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goes On, Revolution, Cannons

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.267, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Dramatic, Spare Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Feet, Goes On, Revolution

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• I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Thinking, Confusion

  "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.

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• Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.

  John Crowley

  Clever, Children, Knowing

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• The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Rain, Eye

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Dark, Vanity

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Halloween, Party

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• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Energy, Floating, Soup

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

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• Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

  John Dryden

  Tails, Stubborn, Lions

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.22, Pearson Education

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

  Paul Klee

  Distance, Lying, Garden

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• When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

  Stephen Spender

  Fathers Day, Dream, Horse

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