Quotes with head-dress

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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Sally Kempton It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
    Sally Kempton
    American yoga teacher and author (1943 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Source: Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Barry Switzer It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
    Barry Switzer
     
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  • Bono It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Charles Dickens It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Golda Meir It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Betsey Johnson Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Language is the dress of thought.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Mark Twain Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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