Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
CHARLOTTE BRONTESentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.
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We didn’t want to sing but we sang.
GEORGE JONES -
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
BAILEY CHASE -
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
BORIS JOHNSON -
I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.
STEPHENIE MEYER -
I’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
RAY LEWIS -
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
BRENNAN MANNING -
Stand by what you believe in. People who mind won’t matter and people who matter won’t mind it.
SHAHRUKH KHAN -
My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
We can help the world live without fear. It’s our only hope, without hope we are lost.
MICHAEL JACKSON -
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERG -
I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.
SHAKIRA -
I call them april babies cause they fools.
LIL WAYNE -
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
MARCEL PROUST -
Those are changes — and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers. You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.
BILL SALI -
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDER