Cracks quotes

Cracks

370 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant."

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
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"It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."

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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka."

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay"

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"To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego."

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Malvina Reynolds Singer-Songwriter
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"God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass"

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."

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