Beads Quotes
112 quotes by 101 authors
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The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and…
— Maya Angelou
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I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu,…
— Ron Shelton
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They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and…
— Anna Louise Strong
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for…
— Al-Ghazali
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Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion,…
— Alexander Theroux
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In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
— George Payne Rainsford James
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You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes,
— Gerard Butler
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There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually…
— Jane Birkin
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Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,
— Zac Posen
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You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?
— Sam Lipsyte
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As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the…
— Gautama Buddha
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An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:…
— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
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I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.…
— Alexandra Sokoloff
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When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
— William Shakespeare
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There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who…
— AnnaLynne McCord
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .…
— Laozi
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