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It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat… — Jean Anouilh
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the… — Pablo Neruda
Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a… — Sara Teasdale
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me,… — Jack Handey
Here's a good tip for when you go to the beach: A sand dollar may look like a nice cracker that someone left, but trust… — Jack Handey
The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much,… — Jack Handey
Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting… — Christopher Hitchens
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments… — Garrison Keillor
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without… — Thomas A. Edison
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had… — P.G. Wodehouse
It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked — Barry Davies
Ian Rush unleashed his left foot and it hit the back of the net — Mike England
On a horse that consistently hung left-The best thing you can do is put a bit of lead in his right ear, to act as… — Lester Piggott
She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder. — John Inverdale
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last… — Pete Sampras
Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight — Horatio Nelson
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die. — Primo Levi
They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind. — Rudyard Kipling
A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man" — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to… — Dave Barry
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. — Laozi
But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left… — Tom Hornbein
When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we… — Linda Gregg
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned… — Winston Churchill

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