Plato Quotes, Country Quotes, Blow Quotes

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

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After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Nice Quotes , Blow Quotes

I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Nature Quotes , Blow Quotes

The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Blow Quotes , Optimism Quotes

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Writing Quotes , Blow Quotes

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Blow Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Flower Quotes , Blow Quotes

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Blow Quotes , Air Quotes

You didn't happen to see your future mother-in-law at that meeting today, did you?" May as well milk the effort. "Yes, the hormonal carp was present." "Marshall!" "She blew me a new one, as you would say.""She ripped you a new one," I correct. "The word blow has an entirely different meaning. I suggest you remove it from your lexicon.

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Tags : Addison Webster Moore Quotes , Mother Quotes , Blow Quotes

There's a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter. Quite possibly there would be no other human beings left to be concerned about anything else.

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Tags : Alan Cranston Quotes , Blow Quotes , Simple Quotes

I am a feather for each wind that blows

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Stupidity Quotes

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Blow Quotes , Suffering Quotes

To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hope Quotes , Blow Quotes

My point is I'm kind of an outlier. For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written.

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Tags : Aaron Bruno Quotes , Blow Quotes , People Quotes

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Weed Quotes , Blow Quotes

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Swimming Quotes , Blow Quotes

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes