Top 100 Quotes About Blows
#1. Her pain was so jagged. You couldn't touch her without it slicing through you too. I wanted to fold myself around her and absorb the rest of the blows life would deliver.
Tarryn Fisher
#2. The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
Catherine Bell
#4. 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.
Cheshire Cat
#5. He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
John Owen
#6. I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.
Marc Bolan
#7. I've done the being-miserable-apart thing for the last three months and it blows. I'm ready to try the scared-shitless-together part.
Georgia Cates
#9. He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#10. A darker storm stands over the world. It puts its mouth to our soul and blows to get a tone. We are afraid the storm will blow us empty.
Tomas Transtromer
#11. Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.
Greg Behrendt
#12. When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. Death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows:
blows a dark sound that swells the sheets
and beds are sailing into a harbor
where death is waiting, dressed as an admiral
Pablo Neruda
#14. Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.
Victor Lodato
#15. Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
#16. You're the most experienced investigator I've got who's not tied up in something, and I can't ask the Consort to look look into it, because A) she and Curran are working on something else and B) when the Consort gets involved, half of the world blows up.
Ilona Andrews
#17. Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
David Mitchell
#18. He could no longer pretend not to have been brought to his knees by her blows, and he could no longer avoid the sentiments that his heart forced him to feel.
Llarjme
#19. Look up ...
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind ... look up, and scent
The snow!
Adelaide Crapsey
#20. All of a sudden Yutaka realized he had created a cloud of dust all around him. Oh no! No! This sucks. This blows more than your mama! Hey, now's not the time to come up with stupid jokes!
Koushun Takami
#21. I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.
Travis Morrison
#22. But now I have something that blows that feeling out of the water. Every time I need a hit of joy, I think about you. You are my solace, Kate. Just knowing that you are in this world, everything makes sense. p. 275 Until I Die (ARC)
Amy Plum
#23. When a scarecrow blows apart in a gale wind, the farmer just props up another one. It's the job to be done that's important, not who does it.
Gregory Maguire
#25. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over ... Death is not anything ... death is not ... It's the absence of presence, nothing more ... the endless time of never coming back ... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound ...
Tom Stoppard
#26. You say that you love rain,
but you open your umbrella when it rains.
You say that you love the sun,
but you find a shadow spot when the sun shine.
You say that you love the wind,
but you close your windows when wind blows.
This is why I am afraid,you say that you love me too.
Anonymous
#27. After a long time, we have had a stable mandate at the top. If the BJP blows this opportunity, it will set India back by a decade.
Chetan Bhagat
#28. Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
Ferdowsi
#29. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. Somewhere along the seashore, a strange wind blows over the ocean, and twenty oblivious boys simultaneously look up from their surfboards.
Sarah Ockler
#31. Rose took my nose, I suppose. And it really blows ... Get it? It really blows. My nose. Taken by Rose. I suppose.
James Dashner
#32. The results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.
Scott Meyers
#33. Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs.
Yann Martel
#34. My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.
Prefuse 73
#35. Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
Thandie Newton
#36. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.
Kellie Elmore
#37. What is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican? A Democrat blows, a Republican sucks.
Lewis Black
#38. When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#39. 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
Muhammad Ali
#40. Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
John Gay
#41. A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.
Lois Ehlert
#42. Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers
David X. Cohen
#43. Now, you've been dealt some tough blows along the way, but those trials don't define you. You can't let them hold you back from getting out there and living.
Melissa Brayden
#44. It's easy to get stuck thinking one particular way. And a lot of times it's even good to be rooted in your beliefs. But every once in a while someone comes along and blows everything you ever thought to be true right out of the water. Sometimes it's more important to be flexible than right.
Rachel Higginson
#45. The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
Antonio Machado
#47. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
John Locke
#48. You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints
Arlene Blum
#49. How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
Tanith Lee
#50. Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you've heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections.
Saul Williams
#51. Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
Felicia Hemans
#52. It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after. It was not the will to live, nor a conscious resignation; for few are the men capable of such resolution, and we were but a common sample of humanity.
Primo Levi
#53. Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#54. The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow ... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
Barbara Kingsolver
#55. It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Jim Henson
#57. What, warder, ho! the man that can blow so complacent a blast as that, probably blows it from a castle.
Mark Twain
#58. Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.
Wilferd Peterson
#59. The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit (John 3:8 NRSV). To be born of the Spirit is to step into a freedom that we never imagined before. It is to trust that the Spirit
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#60. Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#61. The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.
Agatha Christie
#62. Sometimes I write a song and I'm down with it but I'm like yeah, whatever, and then everybody loves it and then it blows up. I'm like: "Okay! I didn't see that coming."
Bonnie McKee
#63. Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide him. He looks very like his father." Her husband's by-blows had his look as well, though at least Robert had the grace to keep them out of sight.
George R R Martin
#64. Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.
P.G. Wodehouse
#65. A time, a space, a different place/ How perfect we might be/ I would be the wind that blows/ You'd be that Willow tree/ And I could never bare the thought of you not by my side/ So I would be the warmth of day/ You'd be the cool of night
Stephen Marley
#66. Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
Mark Twain
#67. Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
#68. Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows.
Jacqueline Carey
#69. Life is a sparring partner;
adversity is its gloves.
Life is an opponent;
adversity is its blows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. My Bridgestone tire blows out on a day that Ferrari wins? Smells too convienent to me ...
Lewis Hamilton
#71. Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.
Peggy Noonan
#72. I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.
Matthew McGrory
#73. I remember a bully once telling me that he was going to beat the stuffing out of me. After numerous blows it was evident to both of us that I didn't have any!!
Neil Leckman
#74. Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Seneca The Younger
#75. He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#76. Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!
Colleen Oakley
#77. Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
Gayle Forman
#78. The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#79. For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
Emmitt Smith
#80. How seasonably
leaf and blossom uncurl
and living things arrange their death,
while someone from afar off
blows birthday candles for the world.
Irving Layton
#81. I know these trees by their feel and their scent. I don't have to turn on my light to know them. The wind blows through the trees. The leaves and needles shake. Almost I feel the wind is sweeping through me as well.
Ned Hayes
#82. All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.
Swami Vivekananda
#83. A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
Julie Murphy
#84. And now I am the way she walks, and now I am the way he smiles. I am the wind that blows and now I am the sun that shines. I am the laughter in your voice, I am the sadness of your soul. And now I am the careless wind and now I flow like the lost river.
Preeti Bhonsle
#85. There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song
the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.
E.B. White
#86. Hey, Effie, watch this!" says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, "We miss you, Effie!
Suzanne Collins
#87. Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
Iggy Pop
#88. The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
George Eliot
#89. Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds
Andy Partridge
#90. The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God is He, He is Ruach (Spirit) and Ruach is speaking to our ruach (spirit) revealing great mysteries, knowledge, wisdom, understanding and joy.
Sipporah Joseph
#91. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.
William Shakespeare
#92. Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.
Peter Criss
#93. The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
Rick Riordan
#95. Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Dodie Smith
#96. I do not drink from this jug every day. But sometimes at night when the wind blows and I am alone and feeling very solitary, it is my only friend and comfort. Right, Pancho?
Rick Skwiot
#99. The fire has its flame and praises God.
The wind blows the flame and praises God.
In the voice we hear the word which praises God.
And the word, when heard, praises God.
So all of creation is a song of praise to God.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#100. Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
Mark Ruffalo
