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Quotes About Heads

Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days.
~ Mark Twain, 1901
I would still not know that Finland had a cuisine, let alone that Kalakukko, a fish pie incorporating spiky bones and heads, was a cherished part of it. So
~ Len Deighton
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys.
~ Jamie O'Neill
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
~ Jane Austen
The Chihuahua pack was snoozing at his feet. All heads came up when I approached. "I brought food for the minions," I said to Forest. "Do you hear that, my teensy minions? The nice lady brought us food.
~ Janet Evanovich
Finally, there was no more recourse, no more beautiful solution, just ugly Resignation and Defeat. At night, Marat would come. It was the only time her fear felt beautiful. He said little. They always made love, though he called it fucking. She was so fascinated with her own acceptance of pleasure. When they were done, he promptly left. There were more heads to roll. It seemed never- ending. The
~ Todd Boyd
Their heads appeared in clusters above the bridge's cement railing, at intervals, like the beads of a damaged rosary.
~ Pat Conroy
Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The same is true about husbands being the "spiritual heads" of their households (not one verse says that), about Sunday and not Saturday being Christians' set-apart day of rest and worship (just ask Seventh Day Adventists)
~ Christian Smith
Nature encourages us to think and feel in primal ways, to clear our heads and hearts of noise, to observe the found world closely, partly to see it for what it is and partly to absorb it as a threshold for imaginative understanding of the nature of nature and our place therein.
~ Christopher Camuto
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
~ Henry Fielding
The Bell: "The storm is approaching, it is impossible to be mistaken about that. The Revolutionaries and Reactionaries are at one about that. All men's heads are going round; a weighty question of life and death lies heavy on men's heads.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Dear God but I despair of these women who abandon their filters in age and just say whatever comes into their heads.
~ Unknown
If with kindly generosity One merely has the wish to soothe The aching heads of other beings, Such merit knows no bounds.
~ Pema Chodron
Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.
~ George Harrison
Hundreds of Every heads were nodding in agreement. It was always good to stop things that needed to be stopped.
~ Dave Eggers
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
~ David Foster Wallace
Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
~ William Shakespeare
Tis all one; I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be civil with the maids; I will cut off their heads. The heads of the maids? Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maiden- heads, take it in what sense thou wilt. They must take it in sense that feel it. Me they shall feel while I am able to stand, and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
~ William Shakespeare
Memories come to mind like excavated statues that have misplaced their heads.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
A massive half-tester bed takes up most of the space in the first room, the headboard panel carved with various animals with women's heads and bare breasts- owls, snakes and foxes- doing some kind of weird dance.
~ Holly Black
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
~ Lewis Thomas