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lying sleep forever
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind. Phyllis McGinley
lying grief grieving
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere. Petrarch
lying flames desire
In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.
lying enemy facts
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy
lying mean men
I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it. William Shakespeare
lying ivory erotic
Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
lying flower blood
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
lying good-will
The let-alone lies not in your good will.
lying sleep eye
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
thinking people photographer
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me. Anton Corbijn
thinking artist open-minded
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist. Antoine Fuqua
thinking differences house
If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house. Bill Vaughan
thinking air support
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.
thinking views people
I don't think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.
thinking
Think before you think!
thinking band needs
What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
thinking facts emphasis
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot. Bill Bruford
thinking topics hot
Robots... I think that is a hot topic. Bill Budge
architecture experience folks overall provided superior underlying
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience. Danny Rimer
architecture built change ethos future leave retain
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. Richard Rogers
architecture atmosphere united united-states
The architecture was beautiful. There's an atmosphere there you just don't get in the United States. Brandon Banks
architecture impact lawn thomas
The architecture of Thomas Jefferson's Lawn had a big impact on me.
architecture bigger given levels multiple mysteries time turned
The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame. Mark Frost
architecture craftsman kinds people realize variety victorian
We have Victorian houses, Craftsman houses, all kinds of architecture. A lot of people don't realize what a variety we have.
architecture builder came everybody family
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. Renzo Piano
architecture bad dangerous hundred impose people ugliness writer
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
architecture
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.