One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
So many programs you watch on the sofa, But the real program sit on top of your shoulders.
Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.
The ones who become stars or superstars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm thinking of letting my hair go.
Shoulders are from God and burdens too.
Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.
When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?
His head just disappeared into his shoulders.
There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.
I have a huge chip on my shoulder.
. . . nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.