“They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.” LongStillsFateBloodDepthBurdenImmortalityGesturesLong AgoPassed AwayMurmuring Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.” PeopleMenMindMadePassionStrongGivenNationsDarkLordRichFateBloodPrideAmbitionBlindIllNobleRisingBigotrySparksSovereignLinkedSpainMonkDoomHeresyAvariceInexorableScourgeRecluseJesuitSpaniardsNarrow Minds Book:The Works of Francis Parkman Source: The Works of Francis Parkman
“Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.” WorldTryingHumansWarDoneNationsCausesFateTroubleBloodBalanceVictoryHigherProveConscienceGuiltDareBrokeWar Of The WorldsMotiveBleeding Author:Ellen Key
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate.” PeopleMeanActionLanguageCommunityUnitedClassFateBloodSubjectsCommittedConnectedCollectivesSocialistMy ThoughtsThoughts And Actions Author:Adolf Hitler
“Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.” LiteratureWaterDestinyFateBloodPrisonIgnorantChainsFaithfulUnbelieversNile Author:Muhammad Iqbal
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” PoliticalLiteratureNationsLibertyFateBloodDemandTaxesHeavy Author:Honore de Balzac
“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis” ThinkingWorldFirstsFeelingsPayAttentionBrainLaughingFateBloodCryFlowerArmsFoolKissingSpringGesturesSwearParagraphEyelidsSyntaxParenthesesLeaning Back Author:e. e. cummings
“wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.” WorldFateBloodFlowerFoolKissingSpringSwear Author:e. e. cummings