Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.
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In the concerts I not only played my own songs, but played songs by Dave Sharp. That's my way of keeping the true spirit of the Alarm alive.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
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The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick.
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Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.
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We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.
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It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
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There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.
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I'll bet, ... But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, 'Jane Fonda did it again. She allowed a man to change her.'
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And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.
