Shoulder Quotes
929 Shoulder quotes by 657 unique authors
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We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention…
— Sue Thoele
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own…
— Eric Hoffer
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TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
— George Herbert
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Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.
— Joan Didion
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Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this -…
— Stan Smith
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A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care…
— Rudolf Steiner
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I lost quite a bit of skin on the left side of my body and sustained some deep cuts in my hand and around my…
— Jens Voigt
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No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but…
— Robert Genn
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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
— John Hancock
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There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of…
— Robert Toombs
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A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's…
— Dylan Thomas
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I'll be your crying shoulder.
— Edwin McCain
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The master of the palace had similar functions at the court of Judah. Announcing the promotion of Elyaqim, Isaiah 22:22 says: 'I lay the key…
— Roland de Vaux
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There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.
— Richard L. Evans
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Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but…
— Antony Sher
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Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no…
— Alexander Woollcott
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who…
— Karl Marx
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[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and…
— Raymond Chandler
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New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the…
— Willie Geist
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