Recess Quotes

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

T. E. Lawrence

Inspirational, Success, Dream

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

Alberto Giacometti

Fashion, Art, Past

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Recess and lunch are the best.

Ty Simpkins

Lunch

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I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

Hillary Clinton

Years, Pennsylvania, Pressure

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Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

Cynthia Lewis

Teaching, Assessment, Punishment

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As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

Tao Lin

Girl, Children, Two

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The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. I was seeking Atman, I was seeking Brahman, I was determined to dismember myself and tear away its layers of husk in order to find in its unknown innermost recess the kernel at the heart of those layers, the Atman, life, the divine principle, the ultimate. But in so doing, I was losing myself.

Hermann Hesse

Heart, Order, Siddhartha

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Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

Richard Simmons

School, Right Now

"Richard Simmons Obesity Crusade" by Imaeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. October 15, 2008.

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Friendship, Air

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840). “The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume”, p.223

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Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

William James

Real, Character, Feelings

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.124, University of Illinois Press

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

John Milton

Hate, Self, Liberty

John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition”, p.66, Broadview Press

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Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

Melissa Leo

Actors, Playgrounds, Movie Sets

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

Steve Nash

Basketball, School, Hockey

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In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

Russell Wilson

Wall, School, Kids

"Wilson's an ideal role model". www.foxnews.com. January 28, 2015.

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The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

Elliott White Springs

Sports, Wine, Player

Elliott White Springs, A. Roy Brown, Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Norman Shannon Hall (1929). “Pilots' Luck”

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Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Alan Shepard

Sports, School, Yards

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It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

Charles Bukowski

Mother, Father, Believe

Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.51, Canongate Books

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Maybe more businesses should allow time for recess.

Adam Rubin

Should

Source: www.sheknows.com

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Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

Robert Byrd

Approval Rating, Aggravation, Appreciate

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To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

Jack Kornfield

Letting Go, Struggle, Heart

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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Heaven, Rejection

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

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Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

Peder Soerensen

Discovery, Mountain, Valleys

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But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Bernhard Schlink

Seductive, Awkward, World

FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Feb 14, 2012

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I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

Dana Rohrabacher

Issues, Years, President

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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

Anais Nin

Heartbreak, Betrayal, Fall

Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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