Quotes with shoulders

  • Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
  • Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
  • An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
  • Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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  • Arnold Toynbee As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • George Herbert A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Abraham Cowley An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
    And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
    Davideis, book ii, line 95. Compare: Loose his beard and hoary hair / Streamd like a meteor to the troubled air, Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Stephen Hawking As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sandburg CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Elton John Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
    Elton John
     
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bonnie Blair Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Brandon Sanderson Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Roxana Robinson Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
    This is My Daughter p.320
    Roxana Robinson
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • Bob Moawad Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
    Bob Moawad
     
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  • Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders.
    Chicago (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
    Letter to Robert Hooke, 15 febr. 1676
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton If I have seen further... it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Ben Hogan If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Gerald Holton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
    Gerald Holton
     
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  • Fred A. Allen Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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