Packs Quotes - Page 4

• I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Looks, Care, Littles

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• They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

  Anthony Quinn

  Lying, Men, Fire

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• Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Religious, Lying

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.516, Da Capo Press

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• We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

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• Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.

  Ted Nugent

  Hunting, Ems

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• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

  Paul MacCready

  Grandchildren, Environmental, Society

  "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

  David Tepper

  Animal, Grass

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• You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

  Tom Waits

  Rivers, Long, Soldier

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Like how could you do nothing,
  and say, 'I'm doing my best.'
  How could you take almost everything,
  and then come back for the rest?
  How could you beg me to stay,
  reach out your hands and plead,
  and then pack up your eyes and run away
  as soon as I agreed?

  Ani DiFranco

  Running, Eye, Hands

  Song: Done Wrong, Album: Dilate, 1996

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• You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

  Francis Crick

  Neurons

  Francis Crick (1995). “Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
  created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
  inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to
  make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an
  incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the
  liberty to introduce persons to one another without first
  ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and
  the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of
  strangers.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Men, Rights

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  O. Henry

  Country, Moving, Trying

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.517, ShandonPress

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• As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Looks, Sometimes, Barren

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.53, Oxford University Press

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• Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.

  Cesar Millan

  Animal, Leader, Unstable

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• The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

  Ray Manzarek

  Lying, Doors, America

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• All these things they've been saying are a pack of lies.

  Tina Louise

  Lying, Deceit

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• The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

  Meles Zenawi

  Lying, Views, Garbage

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• Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Brother, Party, Home

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• A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Needs, Innovative

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• Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Able

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

  Noel Gallagher

  Oasis, Band, World

  "To celebrate Noel Gallagher's fortieth birthday today, we bring you his Top 40 pearls of wisdom". www.mirror.co.uk. May 29, 2007.

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• The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Children, Growing Up, Moving

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• Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Dvds, Stuff, Too Much

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• For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Years, Baggage

  "De Re Rustica". I, 1,

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