| "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob August Riis |
| "blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude." »William Shakespeare |
| "If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." »Peter Ustinov |
| "I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath." »Aesop |
| "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." »Theodore Hesburgh |
| "blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to." »Moliere |
| "If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance." »W. S. Gilbert |
| "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance." »William S. Gilbert |
| "Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance." »Dax Ward |
| "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." »Mary Ellen Kelly |
| "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." »John Muir |
| "A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away." »Arab Proverb |
| "blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I'll feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beauty in the moon. These things are much for the one who loves. One can live by them alone that he and I breathe the same air and that the Earth we tread is one." »Ramayana |
| "Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied." »Edmund S. Morgan |
| "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." »Carl Sagan |
| "Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit." »Godfather, The |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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