Quotation Explorer - 'Shoulders'

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage. - Jay Woodman
She walked with darkness dripping off her shoulders, I've seen ghosts brighter than her soul. - VaZaki Nada
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. - Terence McKenna
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it. - Elvis Presley
The past is behind us," said Boudicca,"but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders. - Michelle Franklin
It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball. - Henryk Sienkiewicz
I consider myself a green party supporter...because green represents my favorite color other than clear. And I met a guy who was running for the green party this one time, and he seemed like he had a great head on his shoulders for a homeless guy. - Vernon D. Burns
I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appearance, I have a three piece underneath. - Hubert Martin
It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia."Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked me the first time."Otto smirked, "Well I have no idea why. - Otto Ray and Amelia Raht
Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders - Jewish Proverb
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.
If you're going to put yourself out there, you just have to let the criticism roll off your shoulders. - Cliff Hannold
A person is worth to be called the functional head who does not mind giving credit to the right brain for an organisational growth; otherwise there are innumerable top-hierarchical people roaming all around by keeping an empty or junk box above on their shoulders. - Anuj Somany
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Her blond hair hung loose, cascading around her shoulders, and stopping over her breasts. She turned toward him, violet eyes meeting his gaze. For a moment, he lost all coherent thought. - Lia Davis
Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone. - Matshona Dhliwayo
said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet! Richard Hamming - Newton
life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind. - Terry A. O'Neal
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. - Titus Livius
Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men. - Auberon Herbert
She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings. - Ariana Dancu
Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, I’m fine, I’m not really loving your social skills though. Don’t you know this is no way to start a conversation? Emily’s mouth clamped shut at the expression on the monsters face. - Nicole Rae
Let's stop judging others, and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us. - Saurabh Sharma
I am, a shadowthat grows longer as the sunmoves, drawn outon a thread of wonder.If I bear burdensthey begin to be rememberedas gifts, goods, a basketof bread that hurtsmy shoulders but closes mein fragrance. I caneat as I go. ("Stepping Westward") - Denise Levertov
Nothing can be more dreadful than the burden of failure on one's shoulders.. - Mayank Sengar
Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night. - A.E. Housman
Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more! - John Bunyan
I can’t sleep during the nights; I feel carrying the world on my shoulders. - M.F. Moonzajer
[He] said don't let them take you over. Walk into the room knowing you are the best. Shoulders back, chin up. Their attitudes will totally change. - Misty Copeland
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
Each day is a brand new opportunity to create a better version of yourself. Do not put so much pressure on your shoulders, make one ilttle change at a time. - Isa Zapata
I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders until I REALIZED I had the power to take it off - Kem Brown
Make sure you don't carry the burden of the whole world on your shoulders, just in case someone needed them to cry. - Nema Al-Araby
The most empowering act we can do is to be real ,to tell the truth and to be free of anything that holds us back. That freedom unburdens our shoulders and allows us to move forward in our journey~bns - Bluenscottish
He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men’s Health magazine. Her gaze roamed over his broad shoulders and down his chest. - Lia Davis
Humble leaders trust more easily because they realize that the world does not rest solely on their shoulders. - -Shandel Slaten
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law. - Carla H. Krueger
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. - Bob Moawad
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. - Jim Morrison
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen. - Ron Baratono
You are my destiny, Thalia. You are mine. He growled into my lips as he continued to make love to me. My hands clenched his shoulders. The markings on his chest made me feel all the love he possessed for me, and I for him. I touched the markings. Yours, Forever love. - Jessica Florence
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over. - Maggi Richard
Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world. - Sunday Adelaja
I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a part of me, like a freckle, like a bruise. Like a middle name now one acknowledged. - Sarah Winman
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. - Steve Martin
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work. - Amelia Boynton Robinson
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. - Gordon Atkinson
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