Blow Quotes

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

And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.

Going to blow up so big my critics and haters are forced to see my face every day.

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests;

you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams.

We never let anyone blow our flames out.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance.

It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone.

Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow up, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance;

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks.

Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

I hope that you of the IPA will go out into the hinterland and rouse the masses and blow the bugles and tell them that the hour has arrived and their day is here; that we are on the march against the ancient enemies and we are going to be successful.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow.

It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us.

The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out.

Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...

Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.

Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance.

It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day.

A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong.

To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases.

Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said Box about: twill come to my father anon.

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!