Sticks Quotes - Page 21

• He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

  Peter L. Berger

  Reality, Definitions, Chance

  "The Social Construction of Reality". Book by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 1966.

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• I'm being accused of being a murderer! I'M being ACCUSED of being a molester!... They say my idea of a fun day is a dark lonely field and the urunj of a car, and a large stick and a roll of duct tape! My MOM shops at Wal-Mart! She gets calls all the time now; she's worried about me! I'm not the most emotionally stable guy in the world; I'll admit that... I do have some problems, but my God, I'm not a murderer!

  Al Snow

  Mom, Lonely, Fun

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• It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Men, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Tier on tier of beautiful mountains and streams Blue green vistas locked in white clouds The mist makes my bandana wet Dew coats my grass cape My feet climb in straw sandals My hand holds an old wooden stick When I gaze down again on the dusty world It has become a land of phantoms and dreams to me

  Hanshan

  Beautiful, Dream, Clouds

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• though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Destiny, Luck, Mud

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.79

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• Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Knowledge, Dust, Doe

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.64

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• Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.

  Albert Belle

  Team, Loss, Winning

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.22, ECW Press

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• (Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.

  Nellie Fox

  Feet, Long, Bats

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• There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob that won't turn, a door that sticks and never budges, is a nuisance to the gods. The gods may kick in the jamb. Worse, they may walk away in disgust, leaving us to hang dumbly from our tight hinges, deprived of any other chance in life to swing open into unnecessary risk and thus into enchantment.

  Tom Robbins

  Destiny, Swings, Doors

  "Continental Drifting With Tom Robbins" by Mary Eisenhart, www.sfgate.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

  Irving Stone

  Running, Reading, Home

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• One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

  Keith Olbermann

  Poop, Facts, Sides

  "Olbermann: FNC & Conservative Side 'Close to Playing With Its Own Poop,' 'Better Off' If They 'Didn't Live in This Country'". www.newsbusters.org. November 19, 2010.

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• It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Beautiful, Art, People

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• When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

  George S. Patton

  Dirty, Men, Giving

  "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, 1983.

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• A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

  Kayla Mueller

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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• The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

  Brian Tracy

  Hero, Differences, Coward

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• Think big. Make a plan and stick to it, and you can do anything you want to do.

  Chasey Lain

  Thinking, Want, Think Big

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• With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Want, Belief

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3522, Delphi Classics

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• The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor let us to fly to the unknown darkness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Darkness, Earth

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• Stick to life, just like a baby sticking to a candy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Baby, Candy

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• There is no life after life. Whoever says there is, ignore him! The untruth must be ignored! Stick to the life and the science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Science, Ignored

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• They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Achieve

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• Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Fool, Firsts

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• If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

  Jeb Bush

  Leadership, Moving, Creativity

  "Bush touts conservative credentials to anti-tax group". www.foxnews.com. February 27, 2015.

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