Shoulders Quotes - Page 19

• The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it’s almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Weight, Greater

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Leaving, Over You

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Bored, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

  Pat Conroy

  Country, Sunshine, Dark

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said.

  Andy Garcia

  Might, Worried, Said

  "Andy Garcia talks about his epic role in 'For Greater Glory'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. May, 2012.

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• I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit on my shoulders and for me to then walk around his town to raise money for charity. He described himself as being 6ft and I was thinking, 'I'm only 5ft 4in, and you want to sit on my shoulders?' How bizarre.

  Nikki Sanderson

  Men, Thinking, Charity

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

  Colin Angle

  Technological Development, Space, Robots

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Laughing, Tolerance

  "The Summing Up". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1938.

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• The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Eye, Air, Blue

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Hips, Bigs, Enormous

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

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• There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Feet, Levels

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.154, B&H Publishing Group

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• I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Giants, I Can

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Mind, Scar

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.

  Donovan McNabb

  Pressure, Feels, Occasions

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• I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.

  Trent Reznor

  Pepsi, Sitting, Want

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• Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

  Morrie Schwartz

  Buddhist, Believe, Bird

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• The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.

  Donella Meadows

  People, Vision, Groups

  Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows (2004). “Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update”, p.269, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Power is more than the punch. I get so much power and belief in myself from God, and from God the power passes through my legs, through my hips, up to my shoulders, through my arms, and into my fists...I'm written to be a legend.

  Naseem Hamed

  Legs, Fists, Arms

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• I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.

  Wendell Pierce

  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: collider.com

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• We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Believe, People, Add

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Ignorance, Europe

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2014). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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