Blow Quotes - Page 25

Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed by accountants, are not really being earned. When you reach for the money, it melts away. It was never there. It [accounting for derivatives] is just disgusting. It is a sewer, and if I'm right, there will be hell to pay in due course. All of you will have to prepare to deal with a blow-up of derivative books.

What a general could do, Thomas did; no more dependable soldier for a moment of crisis existed on the North American continent, or ever did exist... Thomas comes down in history as the Rock of Chickamauga, the great defensive fighter, the man who could never be driven away but who was not much on the offensive. That may be a correct appraisal, Yet it may also be worth making note that just twice in all the war was a major Confederate army driven away from a prepared position in complete rout - at Chattanooga and at Nashville. Each time the blow that routed it was launched by Thomas.

I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.

Blow jobs are okay, but kissing clients is still a taboo.

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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.

We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person’s inner state; it is not an omniscient summary of you. Your reaction reflects your own inner state, and that can tell you which aspects of your own inner world are needy of attention. p.291

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.