“Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.” MindCountryDreamAmericaLyingShiningThanksAmerican DreamThankfulnessOwn Business Author:William S. Burroughs
“A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs; To-day is sad. In the bland To-be, Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.” LyingSeaTomorrowShiningLovelySighSereneMorrowStormyBlandIsleStormy Seas Author:Mary C. Ames
“If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.” IfsEyeFacesLyingHumanityJesusNamesChurchWorshipPraiseCourtShiningHealTemplesGatesHer EyesMiraculousLameEucharisticAlone With God Author:Frederic Dan Huntington
“I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.” KnowsLightLyingDealsBehindsLeaderDoorsHappeningsShiningEndeavorClosed DoorsBack DoorsBehind Closed DoorsElected Leaders Author:Ted Cruz
“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.” IfsMenHardEnoughLyingGivenQualityYouthWeaknessShiningDrinkingCreditEmptinessHostFrustratedUnfortunateAlcoholismDiscreet Book:Points of View Source: Points of View
“Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.” ChildrenStillsDreamEarthLyingNightWaitingSidesSleepWalksSunWiseTreeFeetSpringDancingShiningFleshFatsHeatPregnancyJewelsVesselCornPaganStalkingWheatDolphinsBendingVasesReaperMaresColts Author:Meridel Le Sueur
“Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.” MenLyingQualityTalentSucceedShiningFaults Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think