Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Character Quotes, Feet Quotes

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

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You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

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At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

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I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.

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And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

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A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

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Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

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Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

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For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

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MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

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It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

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If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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