Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg -
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz -
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
Walter de La Mare -
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
Sai Baba
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Flowers are happy things.
P. G. Wodehouse -
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen -
I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
Waris Ahluwalia -
The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman -
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
Carl Safina
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Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'
Nat King Cole -
I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
Ingmar Bergman -
Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco -
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
Edward Young -
Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
Aeschylus
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I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.
Bill Goldberg -
I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -
I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
Beth Revis -
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
Joseph Stalin -
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson