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.
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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.
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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.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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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.
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Flowers are happy things.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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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.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.
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Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
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The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.
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When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.
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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'.
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And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
