Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
How beautiful it is for a man to die
Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
Owain Yeoman
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
Vernon Howard
Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
Tanith Lee
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
Mae West
Mr. D, why is you doin' the Big Nasty on my bed?!
Snoop Dogg
One love, one heart, Let's get together and feel alright.
Bob Marley
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
Muse is the brain-sensing headband that allows you to track your cognitive and emotional activity. It boosts your attention and helps you become more aware of the emotions that you're having.
Ariel Garten
I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say.
Per Petterson
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.
Gautama Buddha
Fear attracts attack.
Edwin Louis Cole
It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations.
Sigmund Freud
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
Carl von Clausewitz
It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.
Joseph Altuzarra
How beautiful it is for a man to die
Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
