Shoulders Quotes
1340 Shoulders quotes by 942 unique authors
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
— Margaret Mitchell
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So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it…
— Patricia Briggs
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So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little…
— A A Milne
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of…
— Leonard Cohen
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Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders
— Peter Matthiessen
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I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when…
— Jodi Picoult
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The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the…
— Julio Cortazar
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He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away,…
— Cornelia Funke
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I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of…
— Markus Zusak
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excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without…
— Chip Kidd
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Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.
— Tom Robbins
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Wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can't turn a cold shoulder to green, and…
— Shannon Hale
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He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
— Ian Fleming
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs…
— Douglas Coupland
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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was…
— Arundhati Roy
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But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but…
— Margaret Atwood
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I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not…
— James A. Baldwin
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Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me,…
— Jimmy Buffett
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The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could…
— Bob Dylan
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