We do not like the idea that any other creature can be better than we are. It is highly probable that if we ever have to face a superior race, we will die of it.
Eraritjaritjaka albutjika Nkinjaba iturala albutjika ... His heart is filled with longing to turn for home In the heat of the sun to return home ... 'Ulamba chant, Aboriginal Central Australia
It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
And men my prophet wail deride!
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.
My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.
Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.
She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone. "Sorry about that, guys!" he yelled. "All right. I'm Eric, and this is my homeboy Matt on the drums. My first poem is called 'Untitled.'" He screwed up his face as if in p...
A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.
I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
