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“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”

World Humans Hard Seems Faces Suffering Views Grief Meditation Cry Abuse Praise Instinct Profound Ancient Welcome Worried Impulse Uncertainty These Days Fragile Mistrust Spirited

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.”

Knows Men Moments Seems Cry Bread Inevitable Hopeless Desperation Without Hope Agonizing

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!”

Seems Cry Lovers Thee Autumn Best Love Autumn Days

Author:Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.”

Way Feels Should Ideas Hard Whole Seems Courses Evil Sound Cry Wicked Necks Chairs Collectives Righteousness

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”

Life Seems Cry Woods

Author:Alfred Austin

“Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down”

Mind Believe Wells Looks Children Feelings Seems Death Hate Dies I Believe Lord Sun Dying Cry I Hate My Children Fixing Lonesome Burying

Author:Bob Dylan

“I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.”

People Writing Seems Spiritual Speak Growth Issues Week Cry Solutions Illness Wounds Heal Enlightened Spiritual Growth Obesity Work And Money

Author:Marianne Williamson

“One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.”

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Author:Jacques Ellul

“Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.”

“It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.”

Men Should Has Beens Made Matter Feelings Home Seems Earth Dies Poor Rich Plans Doors Cry No Matter What Angry Ill Made It Perpetual Beggar Starvation Rich And Poor Rich Man Feeling Sad

Author:George Sand

“However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.”

Source: Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses

“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”

Ifs Giving Seems Loses Prayer Doors Cry Listening Letting Go Giving Up Driven Hold Fast Never Let Go

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.”

Author:Tucker Carlson

“It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But it is those people who seem most difficult, who may even seem hostile, that need your radiation of love most. Their very hostility is but their soul's cry for loving recognition. When you generate sufficient love to them, the discord will fade away.”

People Needs May Soul Seems Speak Easy Difficult Cry Harmony Recognition Sufficient Radiation Fades Hostile Hostility Fade Away Discord

Author:Catherine Ponder

“When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.”

People Looks Seems Cry Genuine Manage These Days Attractive Smack

Author:Jo Brand

“Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.”

“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.”

“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.”

Enough Seems Cry Office Summer Bird Winter Math Stuck

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The moment we're born they try to make us cry, and sometimes it seems as though they never stop. Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow! No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.”

Men Trying May Has Beens Stills Sometimes Matter Moments Seems Past Born Cry Tomorrow Sorrow No Matter What Graves

Author:John R. Rice

“My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.”

Years Said Enough Seems Issues Cry Daughter Clouds Loud Daddy Subtitles

Author:Martin Amis

“Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.”

Doe Seems Law Cry Youth Eternal Killing Unconscious Nature Love Unfeeling Eternal Youth

Book:The dark side of Guy de Maupassant

Source: The dark side of Guy de Maupassant

“There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".”

Knows Kind Whole Seems Might Stuff Emotion Cry Type Elements Europe Wave Radio Pops Accepted Pop Music Love Emotion

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.”

I Can Home Seems Can Do Kindness Gone Car Fronts Cry Driving Snow Old Lady Driving Home Gone Time

Author:Russell Banks

“We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"”

Ifs Should Doe Soul Hands Seems Beautiful Hate Loses Subjects Cry Design Flower Agree Admire Pockets Violet Highways Retired

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about 'inflation,' for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting 'Stop, thief!' and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.”

“An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.”

Men Has Beens Seems Cry Love Life Mice Lap Confined

Author:W. H. Auden

“The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.”

Seems Stuff Break Cry Misery Spots Stations Opera Soap Soap Operas Catalogues

Author:Stefan Kanfer

“A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.”

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Author:Dion DiMucci

“Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.”

Men Made Soul Seems Would Be Jobs Joy Sin Answers Sea Cry Divine Communication Birth All Things Lonely Fellows Flames Sickness Cracks Tides Communion Worms Divine Love Fellow Man Roaring

Book:Redeployment

Source: Redeployment

“Maybe my work isn't a cry for help. It may just be a baby's need to cry or a dog's need to bark. You know, barks that seem connected to phantom noises and cries that just come; though a baby's cries are usually efficient - something is bothering them. Anyway, I think giving money is a sign of love. If you truly want to help someone, a lot of times giving them money is the best thing you can do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Giving May Helping Seems Can Do Dog Cry Baby Connected Noise Bother Best Things Efficient Bark Phantoms Giving Money Signs Of Love

Author:Jonathan Ames

“He may be a lot of things, but Donald Trump has not done one thing that detracts from the character or the reputation of the USA, for crying out loud. I can give you a list of Democrats who you seem to want to sidle up to who are doing their level best to destroy this country as it was founded, who are doing their level best to transform this country away from its intentions as founded. For crying out loud.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.”

People Thinking Children Seems Reading Cry Midnight

Author:Salman Rushdie

“In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.”

People Feels War Seems Pain Faces Universe Consciousness Sea Cry Wind Lays Mood Instant Isolation

Book:Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

Source: Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”

People Knows World Way Reason Seems Remember Young Turns Born Sadness Special Cry Easier Sad Awful Faster Tire Screenwriters Bruises Feeling Sad

Author:Ray Bradbury

“That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”

Way Mind Firsts May Seems Pain Remember Given Memories Steps Forever Taken Cry Temples Yearning Unbearable Register Cornerstones Imprinting

Author:Sue Miller

“The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.”

Knows Men Mean Littles Said Sometimes Hands Seems Felt Pay Attention Boys Worst Cry Pay Attention Old Man Warmth Laughed Pants Wet Little Boys Spoons

Author:Shel Silverstein

“Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.”

“Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.”

Ifs World Made Whole Seems Cry Rain Whole World Made It Mama

Book:Number the Stars

Source: Number the Stars

“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.”

People Knows Way Want Done Seems Remember Moving Forget Happened Cry Broken Findings Holes Forget It Mourn Just Move On

Author:Sarah Dessen

“In that most burdensome moment of all human history, with blood appearing at every pore and an anguished cry upon His lips, Christ sought Him whom He had always sought—His Father. “Abba,” He cried, “Papa,” or from the lips of a younger child, “Daddy.” This is such a personal moment it almost seems a sacrilege to cite it. A Son in unrelieved pain, a Father His only true source of strength, both of them staying the course, making it through the night—together.”