Seals Quotes - Page 7

• Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Blood, Masque

  Frederick S. Frank, Tony Magistrale, Edgar Allan Poe (1997). “The Poe Encyclopedia”, p.224, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

  Kellan Lutz

  Moving, Fighting, Gun

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• In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

  Arina Tanemura

  Dark, Names, Demon

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• I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Guy, Training, Navy

  "Liam Hemsworth & Josh Hutcherson Talk Gale & Peeta in ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 21, 2012.

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• What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ashamed, Liberation, Oneself

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• In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Kings, Wall, Years

  Benjamin Netanyahu's Remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, www.mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Kids, Rights

  "Lonely heart". Interview with Karen Angel, www.theage.com.au. March 19, 2006.

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• I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

  Umberto Eco

  Said, Tombs

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• We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened.

  Kerri Walsh

  Team, Want, Deals

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• I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Pain, Heart, Advice

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1542, Penguin

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• We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

  Jacques Pierre Brissot

  Paris, Anarchy, Revolution

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• I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Song, Block, Spring

  Gabriela Mistral (2009). “Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Reading, Tenors

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

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• Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

  Fred Thompson

  People, Waiting, Acting

  "Mr. Sunshine State" by Ryan Sager, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Unhappy, Jekyll, Confession

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• Calligraphy of geese
  against the sky-
  the moon seals it.

  Yosa Buson

  Moon, Sky, Calligraphy

  Yosa Buson, “Calligraphy Of Geese”

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• A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

  Knut Hamsun

  Two, Long, Bird

  Knut Hamsun (1921). “Pan”

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• Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

  Robert McKee

  Integrity, Unfinished Work, Theatre

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Heart, Gun

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• It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Creating Value, Doubt, Experts

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Night, Land

  John Quincy Adams, “The Wants Of Man”

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• You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

  Leonard Cohen

  Suffering, Pleasure, Locked

  Song: Stories Of The Street, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Dark, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.588, Harvard University Press

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• I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent that while you're creating, you feel very self-sufficient. I've certainly experienced that.

  Joyce Johnson

  Art, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Home, Fields

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1853). “Memoirs of the Rev. George Whitefield: To which is Appended an Extensive Collection of His Sermons and Other Writings”, p.243

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