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82 quotes by 74 authors

The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is… — Jose Saramago
My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life… — Alastair Campbell
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although… — Christopher Bram
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws… — Edward Hoagland
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament;… — Sam Walter Foss
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996. — Akhmad Kadyrov
It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman.… — Pope Francis
In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall… — David Icke
If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team.… — Art Modell
Soon the childâ€™s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop… — Roland Barthes
[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your… — Dorothy Dunnett
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly… — Charlotte Bronte
Itâ€™s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we donâ€™t. Thatâ€™s just a lie people tell themselves to feel better… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have… — Stephen Levine
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be… — Charlotte Bronte
No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon… — Thomas Ligotti

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