O. Henry Quotes, Blow Quotes, Air Quotes

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

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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Blow Quotes , Nails Quotes

O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Love Quotes , Blow Quotes

Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind Quotes

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

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

The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Men Quotes , Blow Quotes

The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Blow Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blow Quotes , Wind 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

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Blow Quotes , Men Quotes

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Angel Quotes , Blow Quotes

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Heart Quotes , Blow Quotes

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!

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Tags : Alan Vega Quotes , Blow Quotes , Listening Quotes

The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Blow Quotes , Night Quotes

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Blow Quotes , Self 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

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

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Tags : Aesop 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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Country Quotes , Blow Quotes

The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Believe Quotes , Blow Quotes