1,129 Quotes About Feet

  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

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  • Author Dante Alighieri
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    O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

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  • Author Dean Acheson
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    Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

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  • Author Edward Abbey
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    Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

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