Crossings Quotes - Page 4

• No hay... nada mejor que tocar la orilla después de cruzar una gran masa de agua sabiendo que lo he hecho con mis propios brazos y piernas.

  Diana Nyad

  Two, Knowing, Water

  FaceBook post by Diana Nyad from Jan 14, 2014

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• Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.

  Jack Kelly

  Loyalty, Stupid, Party

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• Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

  Graham Swift

  Profesor, Niños, Escuela

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mean, Needs, Limits

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.109, Arktos

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• In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

  Kathleen Battle

  Escaping, Rivers, Heaven

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• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

  David Whyte

  Ocean, Breathing, Feet

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• Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.

  Megan Crane

  Mistake, Wings, Errors

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• Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Self, Generosity

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• Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.

  Austin Mahone

  Country, Kids, Men

  "Austin Mahone On His New Album, Touring With Taylor Swift And Why He’s NOT The Next Justin Bieber (Exclusive)". Interview with Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him

  Michel Patini

  Fighting, Player, Creating

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• To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dark, Son, Evil

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.17, ebookspub

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• There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.

  Ian Poulter

  Jobs, Moon, Crossing The Line

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• I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.

  John Muir

  Travel, Nature, Communication

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). "El mundo salvaje de John Muir", p. 315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Así comencé mi recorrido sistemático, aunque medio desconcertado, por los estrechos y sombríos caminos de Innsmouth. Cruzando el puente y girando hacia el rugido de las cataratas inferiores, pasé cerca de la refinería Marsh, que parecía extrañamente libre del ruido de la industria. El edificio se alzaba sobre el escarpado acantilado del río, cerca de un puente y de una confluencia abierta de calles que consideré el primer centro cívico, desplazado tras la Revolución por la actual plaza de la ciudad.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Otoño, plazas, puentes

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). "La sombra de Innsmouth", p.24, Simon and Schuster.

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• I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Real, Cat

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• For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

  Philip Kapleau

  Reflection, Men, Mind

  Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners.  It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.

  Adolf Hitler

  Kings, Class, Three

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• You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Rocks, Climbing

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). "The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan"

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• Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Attitude, Regret

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “By Space Possessed”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

  Charles Wagner

  Hombres, Opiniones, Justicia

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.

  Enoch Powell

  Kings, East Berlin, Choices

  The Daily Telegraph, April 29, 1967.

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• Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Art, Writing, Understanding

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). "Vivir en la esperanza y en la historia", p.199, A&C Black.

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• I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

  Howard Zinn

  Guerra, Números, Gente

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009”, p.108, Haymarket Books

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• Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

  Thomas Brooks

  Cristiano, Arte, Creer

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• Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

  Thomas Huxley

  Atheism, Guinea, Made

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1903). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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