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laughter discovery born
Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. Alfred Jarry
laughter thinking sacred
I think laughter is a sacred act. Tom Shadyac
laughter men laughing
Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it. Evan Esar
laughter emotional analysis
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. Georges Bataille
laughter silly
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. Catullus
laughter sadness heart
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile. Khalil Gibran
laughter criticism limits
Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution. Man Ray
laughter
It made me laugh, so I put it in. Joe Wright
laughter angel hatred
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter. John Greenleaf Whittier
spring cities rivers
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. Arthur Koestler
spring rocks government
Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her. Ben Jonson
spring thinking years
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. Abdallah II of Jordan
spring yoga thinking
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. Dalai Lama
spring thinking government
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. Andrew Bacevich
spring training looks
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. Christy Mathewson
spring keys virtue
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
spring water currents
I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me. Rumi
spring delight
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. Thomas Campion
doors answers knocking
When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back. Brad Goreski
doors waiting soul
Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. Dean Koontz
doors people want
...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do. Diane Keaton
doors darkness heard
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more. Edgar Allan Poe
doors needs force
Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. Victor Hugo
doors enemy gregor-the-overlander
Doors are for those who lack enemies. Suzanne Collins
doors darkness perception
There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception. Stephen King
doors house giants
There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.
doors tides body
I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in. Marilyn French