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«They are not, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream, Our path emerges for a while, then closes, Within a dream»
«To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward»
«The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!»
«We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dread, escaping, exhilaration, for a while, Just One, masking, official, repression, social action
«They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.»
«There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England... Everybody was in a skiffle group... All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass... you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle,that's all it is.»
Author: George Harrison
| Keywords:
acoustic, acoustic guitar, bass, basses, broom, brooms, broom handle, chest, chord, chords, craze, crazed, for a while, India, percussion, posh, skiffle, skiffle group, string, tea chest, thimble, thimbles, washboard
«Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquire, An electric, conditions, electric, electricity, electric company, electric power, favorable, for a while, glasses, permanently, rubbed, rubbing, rub up
«Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, for a while, opening, show business
«Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,Till we can clear these ambiguities.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambiguities, for a while, outrage, outraged, seal, till we
«Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abroad, absent, borrow, do well, for a while, fulfil, place of birth, recall, ties, travelling, well enough
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