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“War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.”

Ifs Knows Men War Dies Fall Lost Poor Safe Safety Limbs Endeavour

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.”

Ifs Knows Art Stories Kids Fall Window Bunch Toes Spilling

Author:Tom Waits

“It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.”

Knows Ends Done America Fall Land Duty Weapons Independence West Monsters Cuba Hereafter West Indies Slingshots

Author:Jose Marti

“Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all.”

Knows World Light Spirit Fall Lovers Flesh

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”

Knows Men Stills Young Fall Girl Marriage Example Youth Falling In Love Young Man Classic Kicks Folly Hats Conventions Expecting Delightful Departure Chorus Conventionality Hats Off

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain”

Knows Pain Order Fall Grows Loses Hurt Lessons Sad Gains Sad Love Sad Life Make You Cry Love And Sad Sad And Happy

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.”

Knows Littles Moving Fall Term Common Audience Comedy Brave Appreciation Complicated Ass Lowest Be Brave Bananas Slipping Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Mel Brooks

“But I just don't think it's an abyss of nothingness [after death] and that we fall off and that our journey stops. I think it's circular and we go and we go and we go. I know that there are civilizations that I think are way more sophisticated than we are and I think more sophisticated civilizations lived before us.”

Thinking Knows Way Fall Journey Civilization Sophisticated Nothingness Abyss After Death

Author:Halle Berry

“You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.”

Knows Fall Three Depends Shots Balls Knocking

Author:Chris Copeland

“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”

Knows Men World Mean Doe Running Hate Turns Fall Break Forever Wife Shapes Blind Warm Envy Clock Staring Running Away Breaking Down Leaving Me Continuity Live Forever

Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes

Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes

“You know what really makes this embarrassing? The other day the president said the leaders in Iraq are 'ready to take off the training wheels.' That's what he said, 'take off the training wheels.' Then he goes out and falls off his bicycle. And they wonder why the rest of the world doesn't take us seriously.”

Knows World Said Fall President Leader Wonder Ready Training Iraq Wheels Embarrassing Bicycle Training Wheels

Author:Jay Leno

“It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.”

Knows Hands Spirit Fall Born Danger Approach Extremes Accomplish Giants Hollow Puppets Accomplish Nothing

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Fall Individual Effort Power Failing Society Collectives Individualism Fulfilled Wholeness Fulfilment

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

“Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.”

Knows Trying Use Problem Running Fall Emotion Plans Achieve Down And Myth Flats Willpower Comes And Goes Fickle Behavioral Change Best Laid Plans

Author:Phil McGraw

“The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.”

Knows Fall Wind Fruit Blow Esteem Fixed Ripe Transience Ripe Fruit

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.”

Knows Self Fall Love Is Falling In Love Isolated Inseparable Emergence Old Self New Self

Author:Joseph Conrad

“I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.”

Knows Way Trying Wells Fall Hurt Love You Falling In Love I Love You Falling In Love With You I Know The Truth

Book:The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.”

Thinking Knows Self Age Fall Emotion Discipline Falling In Love Self Discipline

Author:Giorgio Armani

“My first and last love will always be fiction. It's the first thing I do in the morning and the last thing I do at night. I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.”

Knows Firsts Lasts Night Fall Fiction Morning Novel Affair Keep Going Love Affair Firsts And Lasts

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.”

Knows Writing Humans Has Beens Self Dies Fall Empathy Capacity Cancer Giants Fabric Limitless Spectrum Gogol

Author:Regina Spektor

“Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, weve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. Its like that in football too.”

Ifs Knows Persons Play Whole Fall Sports Team Fields Football Weight Right Thing Pulling Navy Doing The Right Thing Sports Team Lacrosse Slacking

Author:Sean Price

“You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?”

Thinking Knows Fall Break Car Careful Be Careful Ankles

Author:Andy Murray

“People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would fall asleep anywhere. The onset photographer has pictures of me falling asleep everywhere. Like on chairs, on the floor, in the middle of a set, all curled up. There were times when crew members didn't know where to find me, but they knew I'd be curled up in a ball somewhere.”

People Knows Fall Middle Members Balls Tired Photographer Chairs Crew Find Me Falling Asleep

Author:Emma Watson

“It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.”

People Knows Way Trying Littles Sometimes Hard Fall Bits Process Little Bit Solve Cracks Keep Trying

Author:Steve Martin

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