Flats Quote by James Russell Lowell

“Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.”

James Russell Lowell

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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

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Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their…

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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

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O reputation! dearer far than life.

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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

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It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so…

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[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

William Shakespeare

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

Soren Kierkegaard

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

Arundhati Roy

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Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

John Sandford

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I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.

Twiggy

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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

Marian McPartland

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Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

Alber Elbaz

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I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and…

Jim Jefferies

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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Abraham Lincoln

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The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard as the male's fists. Obviously, the rumours about the instructor were all true. He was a flat-out killer. With a metal clank, a door opened at the other end of the gym, and the sound…

J.R. Ward