Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . . |
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. |
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all. |
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. |
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. |
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct -- not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. |
There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet! |
This does represent a split decision. The NCAA is apparently not persuaded by the university's arguments on self-determination. |
This horrible stone entity was fashioned as if covered with a wrinkled hide; it had short, erect ears, eyes starting from their sockets, and its fingers and hands were seizing the corners of its mouth, which they thus seemed to pull open to give free passage to the water it vomited. |
This is the weather the cuckoo likes / And so do I. |
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change |
To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. |
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. |
Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest |
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading |