Lumps Quotes

• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

  Gilbert Highet

  Book, Political, Curiosity

  Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

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• Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

  James Stephens

  Perfect, Finality, Perfection

  'The Crock of Gold' (1912) bk. 1, ch. 4

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• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Bullying, Children, Bumps

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• Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

  Amin Maalouf

  People, Lazy, Together

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Oatmeal

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1991.

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• Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

  Kristen Bell

  Skins, Body, Legs

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• Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Coal, Pressure, Diamond

  Twitter post from Feb 26, 2013

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• Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Keys

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• Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Jesus, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin

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• The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

  Vannevar Bush

  Cameras, Littles, Hounds

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.

  Michael Ventura

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

  Isaac Marion

  Order, Feelings, Brain

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• What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

  Thomas Burnet

  Our World, Rude, World

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• Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Noses, Littles

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

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• This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Baby, Dust, Clay

  James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.17, Penguin

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• A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.

  Alain de Botton

  Sight, Hints, Throat

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• Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Light, Color, Raindrops

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  Randall Jarrell

  Evil, Heaven, Demand

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 59), 1980.

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• Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Civilization, Poet

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• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Money, Fear, War

  "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.

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• At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Army, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

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• My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

  Jane Russell

  Christian, Country, Father

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• It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it

  Christopher Meloni

  Cutting, Catholic, Guilt

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• Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

  Tim Birkhead

  Thinking, Brain, Tissues

  Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black

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• One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

  Richard Gregory

  Understanding, Brain, Porridge

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