Dolly Parton Quotes

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

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• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Place
  • Matters

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Man
  • Messing

• I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Destroy
  • Population
  • Affairs

• Any day you wake up and the ground isn't shaking is a good day.

  

  C.C. DeVille Poison
  • Wake Up
  • Ground
  • Shaking

• I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
  • Laws
  • Goethe

• Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Unfortunate
  • Sept 11

• I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Dark

• People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

  

  William Wharton
  • People
  • Fly
  • Swim

• If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Results
  • Knew
  • Sharing

• And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

  

  Bennett Madison
  • Ocean
  • Swim
  • Swallow

• A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

  

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Wrong
  • Christianity
  • Friar

• Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you.

  

  Edgar Martinez
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Emotions

• All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Kind
  • Church
  • Religious

• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  

  Catherine Webb
  • Body
  • Cutting
  • Building

• Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Hair
  • Eye
  • Enough

• A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Feathers
  • Peacock