"The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear."
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"Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
"Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh."
"My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul."
"The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law."
"I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me."
"The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons."
"We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'"
"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares."
"It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think."
"Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature."
"He does not weep who does not see."
"Every obnoxious act is a cry for help."
"I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now."
"Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry"
"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."
"Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears."
"Crying over what's gone won't find the present."
"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."
"As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out."