Shakes Quotes - Page 7

• I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

  Ann Richards

  Government, Needs, Not Afraid

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• Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Ideas, Agriculture

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Mar 11, 2017

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• People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Hate

  "Georges St-Pierre leads Montreal to UFC glory: UFC, PQ". Interview with Isa Tousignant, hour.ca. March 02, 2006.

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• Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.

  David Jeremiah

  Promise, Spirit, Obstacles

  David Jeremiah (2016). “Your Daily Journey with God: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.123, NavPress

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• A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

  Haile Selassie

  Strong, Rain, Believe

  "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress : The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie" by Haile Selassie, translated by Edward Ullendorff, 1976.

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• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.

  Norman Bethune

  Artist, Men, Creative

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• To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Profound, Style, World

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

  Monica Drake

  Soulmate, Buddhist, Heart

  Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.57, Hawthorne Books

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• And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Literature, Stuff, Reason

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• It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

  Florence Welch

  Devil, Hard

  "Song: Shake It Out (Ceremonials)". September 14, 2011.

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Demon

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• Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Book, Passion, Tired

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• Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

  John Agar

  Men, Hands, America

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

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• If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

  Barry McGuigan

  Men, Cells, Hands

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

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• Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Hands, People, Mouths

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• When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.

  Wanderlei Silva

  Thinking, Trying, Opponents

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• Shake what ya momma gave ya and most of all be sassy

  Kim Kardashian

  Cheer, Sassy, Momma

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• And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Graduation, Beautiful

  "Desmond Tutu: 'And God Says to All of Us, You Are No Chicken; You Are an Eagle'". Desmond Tutu's commencement address at Brandeis University, www.beliefnet.com. 2000.

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• I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

  William John Wills

  Practice, Ideas, Camels

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.102, London : R. Bentley

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• Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

  John Armstrong

  Thrones, Weight, Empires

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.82, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three holes in a bucket of water. The same amount of water is going to flow out the holes whether you let it flow or you shake the bucket. The difference is the amount of turmoil on the inside of the bucket!

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Differences, Water, Buckets

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• I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Hands, Design, Rifles

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• Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Speak Your Mind, Voice, People

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

  Pam Houston

  Book, School, Thinking

  Pam Houston (1993). “Cowboys are My Weakness: Stories”

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• Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  World, Down And, Upside Down

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