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  • Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

    Each Day   World   Body  
  • In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

    Sweet   Spring   Flower  
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
  • A relentless barrage of 'why’s' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

    Thinking   Mind   Use  
  • Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

    Silence   Steel   Paper  
    Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.162, Open Road Media
  • Really the one thing that Pierce told me and that I've taken with me is to have fun doing it. As much as we dive into some serious characters and some serious situations and all that, you've got to enjoy it and remember that you're here to make entertainment and to make people have a nice time when they watch the movie. To me that was something I really took away.

    Fun   Nice   Taken  
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  • At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.

    Men   Effort   Veils  
    R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press
  • The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

    Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
  • If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

    Red   Ancient   Trouble  
  • The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.

    Cutting   Taoism   Doe  
  • Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.

    Life   Beauty   Spiritual  
    Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.8, Shambhala Publications
  • Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

    Writing   Men   Way  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 476), 1895.
  • There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

    Moving   Writing   Blood  
    Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • Our beliefs are rooted deep in our earth, no matter what you have done to it and how much of it you have paved over. And if you leave all that concrete unwatched for a year or two, our plants, the native Indian plants, will pierce that concrete and push up through it.

    Years   Two   Done  
  • The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

    Dissent in Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago 365 U.S. 43, 1961.
  • To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

    Lonely   Heart   Son  
  • Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

    Art   Wall   Regret  
  • For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

    Writing   Heart   Wind  
    Virginia Woolf (2015). “Orlando”, p.149, Booklassic
  • Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

  • I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.

    Smell   Cake   Hats  
  • The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

    Heart   Mind   Criticism  
    Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.64, Penguin
  • The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

    Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.517, Library of America
  • If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error.

    Men   Errors   Law  
  • I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

  • Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  • Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  • Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.

    Father   Heart   Voice  
  • What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that, as I told you, there is this great power of Kundalini within you. She's the one, she passes through all these centres, enlightens them first of all - so your awareness gets enlightened - and when she pierces through Sahasrara, she joins you to this all-pervading power, which is knowledge, which is love, which is truth.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

    Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123
  • The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake?" Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel.

    Cake   Als   Way  
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