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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.
I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
If you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we'd have no terrorists left.
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.
There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
Why do I want my wife to show off her panties when the wind blows? Horses show their behinds, and cows and mules, not humans.
Whenever I throw caution to the wind I make sure I'm facing the right way so that it doesn't blow back and hit me in my face.
Danbury wasn't a prison, it was a crime school. I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine.
There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.
All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.
I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.
That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.
To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.
Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.
So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity.
I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.
When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.
Rose took my nose, I suppose,” he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. “And it really blows.
The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.
Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
You cannot underestimate the body blow for a snooker player of having your cue broken. After all, it's an extension to your arm.
All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's a home.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Guys blow my looks up more than I ever would. I guess I have issues with myself. I don't think I'm as pretty as everybody thinks.