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laughter mean thinking
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way. William J. Clinton
laughter dark laughing
Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost. Roberto Bolano
laughter real silly
I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me. Ty Burrell
laughter tragedy representatives
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. Wyndham Lewis
laughter independent important
Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
laughter self tragedy
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
laughter feelings egotism
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. William Osler
laughter bad-day
Laughter is the music of life.
laughter book expression
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me? William Makepeace Thackeray
self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
tears cry lows
I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. Sarah Silverman
tears eternity babe
Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity. William Blake
tears repentance anguish
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. Miguel de Unamuno
tears sadism savages
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. Publilius Syrus
tears lasts produce
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more. Leigh Hunt
tears
Nothing dries sooner than a tear. Marcus Tullius Cicero
tears world facts
The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears. Margaret Atwood
tears glory shoulders
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. Pierre Jean de Beranger
tears lasts useless
I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. Philip Levine