Top Block Quotes Collection - Page 11

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Image of Jonathan Swift
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Michelangelo
Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him
- Michelangelo
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Image of Kristen Stewart
I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.
- Kristen Stewart
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Image of Alice Walker
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.
- Alice Walker
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Image of William Shakespeare
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Ricky Williams
Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things.
- Ricky Williams
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Image of Alfred North Whitehead
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Image of Ezra Taft Benson
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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Image of Robin Williams
If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."
- Robin Williams
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Oprah Winfrey
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Image of Marshall B. Rosenberg
Thinking based on who deserves what blocks compassionate communication.
- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Image of Itzhak Perlman
I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.
- Itzhak Perlman
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Image of Alex Steffen
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
- Alex Steffen
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Image of Michael Pollan
We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize these four crops - five altogether, but one is cotton - and these are the building blocks of fast food. One of the ways you democratize healthy food is you support healthy food.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Jane Roberts
I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.
- Jane Roberts
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Image of Thomas Sowell
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
- Thomas Sowell
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Image of Ravi Zacharias
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Image of Michelle Alexander
I think first we have to begin by telling the truth, which I think has actually been a big stumbling block. We can look at Donald Trump and see how he lies, but I think we also have to look at some of the lies we've told ourselves and the lies we've accepted and internalized ourselves.
- Michelle Alexander
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Image of Randy Alcorn
Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.
- Randy Alcorn
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Image of Jacques Barzun
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
- Jacques Barzun
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Image of J.R. Ward
The stories just keep showing up in my head - and I really hope they keep it up! I write what I'm told, and as long as I do that, I don't have any problems with writer's block or anything. The issues come only when I try to force the story or the people in it to do things they don't want to. As a control freak, it's funny that I've learned to be so comfortable with being out of control in what is arguably one of the most important areas of my life!
- J.R. Ward
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Image of Laozi
Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.
- Laozi
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Big Daddy Kane
158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block
- Big Daddy Kane
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Image of Rose McGowan
I went from being just a kid to all of a sudden not being able to walk a block without a man waggling his tongue through his fingers, which is disgusting. I mean, I was 13 and suddenly I'm trying to see myself through the eyes of men, trying to figure out why I'm getting this reaction from them versus just being able to walk through the world whole.
- Rose McGowan
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Image of Brian Tracy
Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
- Brian Tracy
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Image of Winston Churchill
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Benjamin Graham
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
- Benjamin Graham
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Image of Ava DuVernay
I always go into a blocking rehearsal with an anchor, with a blocking plan. And sometimes they'll step into the room and they'll be in costume and you're like, "That sucks, that's not going to work. Let's think of something new."
- Ava DuVernay
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Image of Anne Carson
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
- Anne Carson
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Image of Robin Sharma
Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths
- Robin Sharma
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Image of Edmund Burke
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of Orson Scott Card
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.
- Orson Scott Card
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Image of Julia Cameron
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
- Julia Cameron
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Image of Julia Cameron
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
- Julia Cameron
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Image of Deepak Chopra
If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of Rhonda Byrne
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
- Rhonda Byrne
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Image of James Clerk Maxwell
That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.
- James Clerk Maxwell
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Richard Rodriguez
You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.
- Richard Rodriguez
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Rakim
Go to the club or go to the block or go hang out and things start coming.
- Rakim
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Image of Deepak Chopra
Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.
- Deepak Chopra
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Image of Ban Ki-moon
The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.
- Ban Ki-moon
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Image of Robert Breault
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
- Robert Breault
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Image of Narendra Modi
Harnessing e-governance moves the access to governance from long queues at offices to any internet point. In Gujarat, our UN awarded widely acclaimed SWAGAT e-governance system ensures that long-term grievances are resolved through use of online applications and video-conferencing across all district and block offices.
- Narendra Modi
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Image of Candace Bushnell
I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life? Instead, you procrastinate and think about it and put it off and think about it some more until that one little pebble grows into a giant block inside your head.
- Candace Bushnell
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Image of Oswald Chambers
When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede
- Oswald Chambers
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