Top 15 Prostrations Quotes
#1. He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood
Whit Masterson
#2. Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#3. i aint the sharpest knife in the drawer , but i know enough to know that if your gonna be dumb you have to be tuff... i
Jose Torres
#4. The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
Ava Gardner
#5. Sequoia seeds have flat wings, and glint and glance in their flight like a boy's kite.
John Muir
#6. People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
Milton A. Lee
#8. What I struggle with is believing that God loves me, not just because He has to, but also because He wants to.
Steven Furtick
#9. We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
Robert Schumann
#10. My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.
Aravind Adiga
#11. I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188
Sonia Sotomayor
#12. [Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting.
Margaret Mead
#13. There, in the desert, there's hunger, thirst, prostrations - and God. Here there's food, wine, women - and God. Everywhere God. So, why go look for him in the desert?
Nikos Kazantzakis
#14. A man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by her will and allure.
Lionel Suggs
#15. Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases.
Eve Ensler
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