Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her…

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

— John Milton

“Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose never swerves, Whose slightest action or inaction serves The one great aim. Why, even Death stands still,…

— Ella Wilcox Wheeler

“Don’t Let That Horse . . .” from A Coney Island of the Mind. Don’t let that horse eat that violin cried Chagall’s mother…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

— Israel Shenker

Life is a death-defying experience.

— Edna Buchanan

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

— Mira Grant

The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes…

— Frank Griswold

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have…

— Philippe Petit

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to…

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Wayne LaPierre feverishly explained that all Americans must be armed. “After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as…

— Michael Waldman

“One Trump tenant disturbed by the de facto segregation was the Oklahoman Woodrow Wilson Guthrie—or Woody, as the folksinger was known. He had moved…

— Michael Kranish

“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Day an' night they set in a room with a checker-board on th' end iv a flour bar'l, an' study problems iv th' navy.…

— Finley Peter Dunne