Quotes About The Shakers

#1. Some people think God is going to guide those humans. The Oneida community and the Shakers both believed that they had received revelations about how to build the New Jerusalem that the Bible says is coming

Christine Jennings

#2. With the possible exception of the Shakers, it is difficult to think of an American movement that has failed more spectacularly than antipornography feminism.

Andrea Dworkin

#3. We have to be prepared for change.

Paulo Coelho

#4. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

George Lois

#6. You can't kill the Devil with a sword.

Ann Lee

#7. Remember that, so that next time you can just agree with whatever I say and we'll be fine. Though he didn't open his eyes, one corner of his mouth curled, ever so slightly. It was what I was hoping for. For a moment, the barriers had crumbled and we were all right again.

Julie Kagawa

#8. Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

Douglas Coupland

#9. People said the towers looked like giant salt and pepper shakers, but I'd always thought they looked like Daleks from Doctor Who.

Rick Riordan

#10. Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

George Mikes

#11. I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

Aby Rosen

#12. Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. Lady, if you laugh and you don't make a noise, you're a shaker, and it's freaking me out.

Christopher Titus

#14. Did he break it off? Were you too tall for him?"
"We're the same height. Actually."
"Really. That's adorable. Like salt and pepper shakers.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

Eva Zeisel

#16. Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.

Mario J. Lucero

#18. Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Carolyn Weber

#19. We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

Malcolm Turnbull

#20. The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Theodore Sturgeon

#21. If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

John Mott

#23. Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Position yourself as a
center of influence, the one
who knows the movers and
shakers. People will
respond to that, and you'll
soon become what you
project.

Bob Burg

#25. Great opportunity for technology/media companies to meet the movers and shakers in the broadcast and media industries.

Kay Koplovitz

#26. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

#27. The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

Bill McKibben

#28. Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.

Charles Lamb

#29. Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

Jodi Picoult

#30. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

Markus Zusak

#31. Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Steven Wright

#32. Again from a distance, Sukie was once again struck by her mother's chic and how different things can seem from far away, how there's more than one truth, the faraway truth and the truth close up.

Delia Ephron

#33. Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

Harvey V. Fineberg

#34. I'd probably put those salt and pepper shakers away now, David, because we're about to be visited by dribbling cannibal psychopath and we wouldn't want to tease these fellows. Of course, if they're very hungry, I do have this left arm that I don't use all that much.

Garret Keizer

#35. I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Marc Newson

#36. You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.

Melissa Kantor

#37. The women are the movers and shakers in the community ... they initiate things ... they keep things going.

Pat O'Shane