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"He started to smile. “Are you waving the white flag?” “Not so fast. I’m saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up in our faces. I ’m not saying declare eternal love for each other while I fall back with my legs open."
"Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best."
"This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you."
"The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster."
"Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value"
"When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence."
"Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence."
"When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching."
"Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark."
"Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms."
"Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies."
"Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine."
"Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more."
"When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination."
"The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may."
"Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake."
"If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist."
"It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity."
"By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms."
"She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall."
