C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint."
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Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it."
John Brown
Abolitionist, Military Leader
"I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat."
Bill Murray
Actor, Comedian
"Grab this day by the neck and kiss it."
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"The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man."
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"If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won."
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"Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck."
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"I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck."
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"A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright."
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"I've developed a stiff neck that's about to drive me insane."
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"I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark."
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"I can wrap my legs around my neck."
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"In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck."
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"We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck."
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"God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once."
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"Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck."
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"The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck."
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"I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic."
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"If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck."
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"After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat."
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"The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion."
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"Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck."
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"Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck."
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"You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers..."
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