Stools Quotes - Page 5

• Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Agony, Dying

  Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

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• Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Hope, Party

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.

  Michelle Tea

  Running, Dream, Sweet

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• So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air. She stood you up on a stool and had you sing it for us. And I swear, every bird outside the windows fell silent...and right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Song, Teacher

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Morning, Book

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

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• For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Loss, Choices

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• Hope is one leg of a three-legged stool, together with faith and charity. These three stabilize our lives regardless of the rough or uneven surfaces we might encounter at the time... Hope in our Heavenly Father's merciful plan of happiness leads to peace, mercy, rejoicing, and gladness. The hope of salvation is like a protective helmet; it is the foundation of our faith and an anchor to our souls.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Anchors, Soul

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• Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

  Brian Tracy

  Independence, Three, Saving

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