Shells Quotes - Page 6

• After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.

  Lynn Caine

  Beach, Husband, Tunnels

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess.

  Carol Tavris

  Sports, Children, Expression

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• How to sustain the miracle
  Of being, that like a muted bell,
  Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
  Quivers, intense and still?

  Babette Deutsch

  Ocean, Breathing, Miracle

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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• Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches
  of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars
  we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend
  once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones
  we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me,
  a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives,
  our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope,
  a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple
  sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

  Richard Jackson

  Beach, Morning, Stars

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• First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Real, Book, People

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• A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

  Eileen Gray

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

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• Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.

  Loren Acton

  Life, Drama, Moving

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• It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

  Charles Lyell

  Beach, Marine, Scotland

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”, p.47

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Heart, Hard Times

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Jan Karon

  Veterans Day, Stress, War

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.289, Penguin

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• Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Ideas, Age

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• Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Beautiful, People

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• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Strange, Backbone

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

  Brian Perkins

  Broken Heart, Men, Soul

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• The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

  Sam Vaknin

  People, Narcissistic, Narcissism

  Sam Vaknin (2005). “Diary of a Narcissist”, p.90, Narcissus Publishing

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• Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.

  Paul Buchheit

  Letting Go, Self, Expectations

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• Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Nuts, Should

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.

  Mark Tobey

  Break Through, Eggs, Important

  Mark Tobey, Wesley Wehr, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum (1988*). “Mark Tobey, a new look: Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, February 19-March 27, 1988”

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• The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

  Georges Cuvier

  Moving, Mountain Ranges, Feet

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• Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

  Bettie Page

  Young, Young Women

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

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• The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

  James Rainwater

  Understanding, Triumph, Suggestions

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• Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.269, Tin House Books

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• I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are.

  Roger Caillois

  Art, Independent, Men

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• A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

  Sharon Begley

  Coffee, Weekend, Impact

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• If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.

  Herman Leonard

  Games, Design, Done

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