Necks Quotes

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• I think for a lot of people, the financial barrier is the biggest leap (that) you have to take. A lot of people don't want to stick their necks out and take that risk which is totally understandable. Until you are ready to totally bet on yourself and put all of your chips on the table, it doesn't happen.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, People, Risk

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• Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

  Katherine Center

  Smile, Heartbreak, Adventure

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Beauty

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes", 1994.

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• Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Lonely, Past, People

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• I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

  Humphrey Bogart

  Sticks

  "Fictional character: Rick Blaine". "Casablanca", www.imdb.com. November 26, 1942.

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• A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

  Austin O'Malley

  Break, Holes

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• Take eloquence and wring its neck.

  Paul Verlaine

  Eloquence

  Paul Verlaine (1981). “Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song”, Ams Pr Inc

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• The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

  Gloria Swanson

  Age, Firsts, Feminine

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• Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

  Lou Gerstner

  Perseverance, Moving, Turtles

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• It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

  Patsy Cline

  Feet, Sticks, Seems

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• Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Funny, Motivational, Appreciation

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

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• No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

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• The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Believe, Victory

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• If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, War, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

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• The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

  Lucy Liu

  Sexy, Japan, Different

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• Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

  Sid Waddell

  Sticks, Giraffe, Darts

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• If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Fighting, Should Have, Air Power

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• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

  James Bryant Conant

  Motivational, Courage, Funny Inspirational

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

  Elvis Presley

  Singing, Records, Firsts

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• Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Rock N Roll

  "Rock & Roll Facts, Figures & Fun". Book by Mike Evans, 2005.

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• Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

  Maria Sharapova

  Swans, Hands, Arms

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• Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

  John Steinbeck

  Hair, Feet, Hoarse Voice

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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