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lonely song world
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. Richard Wilbur
lonely good-day writing
Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work. William Zinsser
lonely fun writing
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.
lonely loneliness destiny
There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist. Woodrow Wilson
lonely loneliness book
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. William Wordsworth
lonely nature rivers
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
lonely sleep sky
The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
lonely nature spring
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
lonely silly america
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. William Saroyan
past seen wheels
Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done. F. Schumacher
past judging dont-judge-me
Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible. Richelle Mead
past mma taught
Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. Ronda Rousey
past simple men
A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast. William Faulkner
past years america
The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never. Richard M. Nixon
past land effort
As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.
past odds israel
We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.
past somewhere-else want
I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.
past roots people
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? Robert Dale Owen
spirituality not-sure
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go. Tracy Chapman
spirituality ghost modern
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
spirituality my-own values
I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity. Kitty Kelley
spirituality ethical existence
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality. Albert Schweitzer
spirituality our-lives judged
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read. Thomas Jefferson
spirituality wonder
Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates
spirituality fixed messy
Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality) Mike Yaconelli
spirituality live-by
None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith. Matthew Henry
spirituality concepts
I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong. Lauryn Hill