Quotes about neck
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Quotes about neck

“If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.”

To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

“I heard the executioner was very good. And I have a little old creaky neck.”
On her executioner, Blastmilk, "Anne Boleyn: The Midnight Crow, 1501-1536" http://www.blastmilk.com/decollete/tudor-england/anne-boleyn-the-midnight-crow.php, [published on] September 18, 2006

About the defeat of Jaipal. Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi, in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. p. 27 Also quoted (in part) in Jain, Meenakshi (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts.
Quotes from Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi
Source: The Curious Savage

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Some Call It Censorship, p. 150
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
Source: The Bronze Horseman

Von Foerster (1995) " Interview Heinz von Foerster http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/interviewvonf.html" S. Franchi, G. Güzeldere, and E. Minch (eds) in: Constructions of the Mind Volume 4, issue 2. 26 June 1995
1990s

Mahabharata translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli in: Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXII https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mahabharata/Book_1:_Adi_Parva/Section_CXIIThe, Wikisource

Letter to Ulysses S. Grant http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/grant.htm (13 July 1863), Washington, D.C.
1860s

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)

written in Saint Cloud, 1889
Quotes from his text: 'Saint Cloud Manifesto', Munch (1889): as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, pp. 120 -121
1880 - 1895

“Would that the Roman people had but one neck!”
Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!
As quoted in 'The Twelve Caesars: Gaius Caligula by Suetonius, section 30, as translated by Alexander Thomson.

Letter 2 (July 17, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter

Saint John Chrysostom (349–ca. 407), Eight Homilies Against the Jews http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chrysostom-jews6.html, Homily 1

12 October 1492; This entire passage is directly quoted from Columbus in the summary by Bartolomé de Las Casas
Journal of the First Voyage
My Twisted World (2014), Pastimes

Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: But such a straight identification of religion with any and every form of happiness leaves the essential peculiarity of religious happiness out. The more commonplace happinesses which we get are 'reliefs,' occasioned by our momentary escapes from evils either experienced or threatened. But in its most characteristic embodiments, religious happiness is no mere feeling of escape. It cares no longer to escape. It consents to the evil outwardly as a form of sacrifice — inwardly it knows it to be permanently overcome. … In the Louvre there is a picture, by Guido Reni, of St. Michael with his foot on Satan's neck. The richness of the picture is in large part due to the fiend's figure being there. The richness of its allegorical meaning also is due to his being there — that is, the world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Speech in reply to Senator Stephen Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas debates http://www.bartleby.com/251/1003.html of the 1858 campaign for the U.S. Senate, at Chicago, Illinois (10 July 1858)
1850s, Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
Context: Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as they are capable of enjoying; that as much is to be done for them as their condition will allow. What are these arguments? They are the arguments that kings have made for enslaving the people in all ages of the world. You will find that all the arguments in favor of king-craft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people, not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden. That is their argument, and this argument of the Judge is the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will, whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of this country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent, and I hold if that course of argumentation that is made for the purpose of convincing the public mind that we should not care about this, should be granted, it does not stop with the negro. I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, and making exceptions to it, where will it stop? If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it, and tear it out! Who is so bold as to do it? If it is not true let us tear it out! [Cries of "No, No."] Let us stick to it, then; let us stand firmly by it, then. It may be argued that there are certain conditions that make necessities and impose them upon us, and to the extent that a necessity is imposed upon a man, he must submit to it. I think that was the condition in which we found ourselves when we established this Government. We had slavery among us, we could not get our Constitution unless we permitted them to remain in slavery, we could not secure the good we did secure if we grasped for more; and having by necessity submitted to that much, it does not destroy the principle that is the charter of our liberties. Let that charter stand as our standard.

Part Troll (2004)

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Source: Shadow Souls

“If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.”

“Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!”
Source: Glass Houses

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy

“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”
Source: Beloved
“And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it”
Source: The Awakening
“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment

Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C. (22 October 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Civil Rights Mass Meeting (1883)
Variant: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“I hit him on the back of the neck. He submerged.”
Source: Magic Strikes

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
“He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck”
Source: Magic Bleeds
Source: The Darkest Surrender
Source: Wild Man Creek
Source: Invitation Only