Shoulders Quotes - Page 7

• Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Differences

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• Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Long, Tire, Fortune

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."

  Eugen Herrigel

  Teacher, Loneliness, Teaching

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• In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Blow, Men

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• I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

  Robert Pattinson

  Looks, Moments, Fame

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Hands, Years

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• Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground as much as your head in the clouds. The cute dragon that sits on your shoulder also craps all down your back, but this makes it more interesting because it gives it an added dimension.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cute, Writing, Clouds

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• They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Heads Up

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

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• Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Wine, Sleep

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• For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Feet, Air

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.334, Stanford University Press

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• You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.

  Steve Pavlina

  Money, Responsibility, Firsts

  "Living Paycheck to Paycheck". www.stevepavlina.com. March 5, 2009.

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• We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Suffering, Together

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It's the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give

  Vernon Jordan

  Responsibility, Giving, Forever

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• Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sorrow, Fields, Done

  Oliver Goldsmith (1830). “The vicar of Wakefield, etc. (University edition.)”, p.217

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• Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

  Tavis Smiley

  Children, Growing Up, Looks

  FaceBook post by Tavis Smiley from Jul 20, 2010

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• O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.

  Pope John XXIII

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

  Carl Sandburg

  Player, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago" l. 1 (1916)

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• Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

  Jay-Z

  Hip Hop, Dirt, Brushes

  Song: Dirt Off Your Shoulder

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• The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Mean, Media

  "Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian". Book by David Barsamian, chomsky.info. 1992.

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• I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

  Thomas Paine

  Littles, Too Much, Revolution

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  War, Believe, Taken

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• And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a great sweep of the wrist, dropped him on the ground like a cut flower. As always, I carefully cleared the engine, turned off all the switches one by one, removed the straps, the wires and the tubes which tied me to him, like a child to his mother. And when my waiting pilots and my mechanics saw my downcast eyes and my shaking shoulders, they understood and returned to the dispersal in silence.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Mother, Children, Flower

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Depression, Crush, Black

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

  Peter Green

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

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