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shake up
«There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Chance,
Emotion,
Heart
| Keywords:
by chance, careless, chance, depths, drops, emotion, full, full of life, gathered, Gathering The, gather in, gather up, ground, moments, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, pebble, pebbled, shaken, shake up, spilling, spills, spilt, water
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.»
«Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| Keywords:
awake, awaked, awakes, awaking, develop, enthusiasm, enthusiasms, gusto, hobbies, hobby, interested, shake, shake up, sure, sweep, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up, today, winds
«Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
back down, back off, blundered, blundering, blunders, capacity, failures, goals, growth, growths, happen, inseparable, knocked, knocked out, knock down, knock off, knock on, knock out, knock up, limits, look back, mistake, mistakes, occasional, off, quit, reach, shake, shake off, shake up, teaching, turn, turn down, wins
«It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
advantage, advantaged, break, devil, easy, faith, like the devil, shake, shake up, spirit, take advantage, terribly, to advantage, working man
«First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
apple, Apple I, apple tree, branch, branched, branch out, climb, First I, leaf, leafing, limb, riper, ripest, shake, shake up, The Apples, Tree, tree branch, twig, twigs
«When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Liberty,
Revolution,
Violence
| Keywords:
blood, blooded, by hand, comes, dabble, dabbled, dabbling, handing, handing over, hands, hand out, hand to hand, hard, Harder Than You, Hard on, hard up, her, liberty, on hand, On Liberty, out of hand, shake, shake hands, shake the hand, shake up, with