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«An unusually tranquil skyscraping vantage-a kind of front porch 850 feet in the air.»
«A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.»
«A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise»
Author: Mark Helprin
(Novelist)
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
anarchy, architecture, bulls, classroom, classrooms, dullard, dullards, geld, gelded, obedient, tranquil
«At times our lives seem like that of a tranquil island in a sea of chaos. The battle is to keep this sea of chaos at bay and not let it wash us away into utter chaos.»
«. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.»
«All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.»
Author: Lenny Bruce
(Comedian, Satirist)
| Keywords:
breadline, Edgar, Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, tranquil, without humor
«All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| Keywords:
at times, challenging, perplex, perplexes, perplexing, tranquil
«All sorrows are destroyed upon attainment of tranquillity. The intellect of such a tranquil person soon becomes completely steady.»
«(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Liberty
| Keywords:
enterprises, faction, factions, feeble, member, prescribed, prescribes, tranquil, withstand
«Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!»
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