Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.
A bolt that raised her heart to blazing height And made the vertical the very thrust of hope, And found its path at last (Slow work of Grace).
Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.
Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.
It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.
This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record...
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
There was quite a lot of lying around in fields at Stonar, a small independent girls' school in the country near Bath. It was a non-selective school and the right environment for me: academically not particularly pushy.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
