Shakers Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things… — George Johnson
The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going. — Pat O'Shane
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake… — Marcus Borg
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. — Markus Zusak
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like… — Andrei Codrescu
Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,… — Benjamin Zablocki
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James… — Jim Keith
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come. — Marc Newson
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. — Theodore Sturgeon
The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might… — Thomas Merton
They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless… — Nate Berkus
Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. — Douglas Coupland
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like… — Eva Zeisel
Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt. — Jimmy Buffett
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. — Maria Mitchell
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the… — Ann Voskamp
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and… — Hunter S. Thompson
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult

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