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“I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.”

Thinking Feels May Important Self Ability Keys Mouths Tools Defense Fats Allowing Mechanism Sane Self Defense Starks Being Funny Uncontrollable Defense Mechanisms

Author:Jen Lancaster

“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”

“Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.”

“Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.”

World Wells May Children Soul Cases Hell Sweet Thousand Mouths Ease Honey Alas Petty Nests Guarded Hives Nectar Vexation Wasps

Book:Emblems divine and moral

Source: Emblems divine and moral

“People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.”

People Ifs Want Trying Looks May Reason Use Seems Speak Language Wonder Mouths Let Me Accomplish Defense Objectives Coincidence Revealing

Author:David Mamet

“Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.”

May Love Is Taste Mouths Filled Bread Grass Stomach Salt Without Love Love Is Like Bad Taste

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.”

May White Mouths Graves

Author:John Banville

“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May close her mouth, but not conceal her eyes; Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, And all the homely features homelier makes.”

Should May Eye Faces Sleep Mouths Surprise Lovely Features Her Eyes Homely Inspectors Nymphs

Book:The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes

“The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage.”

World Trying May Whole Lying Existence Civilization Mouths Hot Whole World Noise Manage Tigers Absolutely Nothing

Author:Djuna Barnes

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”

May Has Beens Said Literature Born Judgment Mouths Apology English Literature Irishmen

Book:Labour in Irish History

Source: Labour in Irish History

“The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.”

“Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.”

People May Shows Certain Mouths Notion

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.”

People Firsts May Arms Members Mouths Congress Tongue Shoulders Roof Powerless Propose Amen

Author:Anne Royall

“I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.”

Feels May Persons Eye Anxiety Mouths Lawyer Curious Accents

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.”

May Persons Seems Age Source Mouths Praise Compliment Exaltation Glorification Self Glorification Self Praise

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.”

Mind May Made Speak Mouths Acknowledge Wiser

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.”

May Truth Faces Lying Mouths Telling The Truth Alright

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.”

May Greatness Mouths Breaths Humankind Hail Superhuman Breathless Moisture

Author:William Butler Yeats

“We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.”

May Together Food Eating Mouths Dinner

Author:Mason Cooley

“Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.”

People Years May Children Doe Self Young Issues Mouths Absolutes Bitter Prize Self Control Literal Young Children Absolute Truth Veracity Watchfulness Bitter Experience

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.”

Men Writing May Care Girl Mouths Don't Care Gender I Don't Care Bullshit Creeps Tourists Good Writers Specks Chameleon Brando

Author:Patti Smith

“I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.”

May Able Like You Mouths Paint Colour Sunset Glitter I Like You Monet

Book:Francis Bacon

Source: Francis Bacon

“Between the mouth and the morsel many things may happen.”

May Happens Mouths

Author:Cato the Elder

“May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.”

Ifs Men Should May Different Matter He Man Mouths

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.”

Ifs May Stills I Can Hands Mouths Lions Bites

Author:Wilhelm Steinitz

“Twenty years ago if you provided someone with horrible service, it may take weeks or even months for the word-of-mouth message to get out to 15-20 potential customers. Today, with social media, thousands of potential customers can learn about horrible service within hours, minutes or even seconds after it happens.”

Ifs Years May Happens Today Social Hours Week Minutes Media Months Messages Mouths Years Ago Twenties Social Media Customers Horrible Seconds Word Of Mouth

Author:Bill Capodagli

“I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.”

People Knows May Would Be Parent Rooms Creative Smart Mouths Scary Accomplish Opening Stand Alone

Author:Queen Latifah

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”

Heart May Helping Prayer Praying My Heart Mouths Depth Help Me Grants

Author:Martin Luther

“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

Source: At Swim-two-birds

“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”

Feels May Forget Silence Cutting Mouths Ears Bones Tongue Scream Nails

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!”

May Fire Cold Mouths Strikes Scholar Lightning

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

May Lying Mouths Telling The Truth

Book:Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future

“You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”

Mind May Play Universe Difficult Water Walks Fire Bears Mouths Mad Wander Lions Elephants Tigers Alchemy Livelihood Calming Spiritual Masters Autobiography Of A Yogi Cobras

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?” Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. “It was like being owned.” Some women like that.” Not me.” Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.” I doubt it. I couldn’t breathe with him kissing me.” One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.” Right, and one day my prince might come.” I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Men May Littles Hands Might Memories Doubt Depends One Day Kissing Mouths Consequence Breaths Breathe Lanes Good Kisser

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

“I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts May Art Reason Might Eye Mouths First Time Related Museums Elderly Profane Profanity Vernacular

Book:I like what I know: a visual autobiography

Source: I like what I know: a visual autobiography

“To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope -- here is fortitude indeed.”

Ifs May Strong Silence Mouths Praise Dare Dust Fortitude Steers Praise God

Book:Paul: A Servant of Jesus Christ

Source: Paul: A Servant of Jesus Christ

“Kaia tossed Strider a shut-your-mouth frown before bouncing in her seat. "Do I get to help? Can I? You may not know this, but I'm very handy with a blade of any kind, a hacksaw, a whip, a-" "Hey! Someone went through my bag," William said. "So?" Kaia continued, as if William hadn't spoken. "Whatever the weapon, I'm good with it." He would not be impressed. "We won't be using weapons. We'll be smashing jugulars." "Oh, oh! We can play Who Can Smash More!" "No, we can't because you can't help," Stider said at the same time William blurted out, "I'd be disappointed if you didn't help.”

Ifs Knows Kind May Said Play Helping Weapons Mouths Hey Seats Bags Disappointed Impressed Blades Whips Handy Smashing Strider

Author:Gena Showalter

“He watched her retreat, his eyes lazy, and his body unmoving. A trickle of blood seeped slowly from the corner of his mouth. He let her get nearly out of the room before he spoke, “I may not have the right, Silence, me love,” he drawled so soft she nearly didn’t catch the words. “But I would’ve listened to ye. I would’ve believed ye.”

May Body Eye Rooms Silence Blood Mouths Corners His Eyes Lazy Spokes Retreat

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?”

Want Firsts Kind May Long Important Feelings Guy Girl Perspective Drink Offers Kissing Mouths Okay Tables Instinct Smell Halfway What's Important Spoons Bonding Kind Of Girl Sewers Tentacles

Author:Rachel Vincent

“I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.”

May Night Girl Sides Mouths Spending Sarcastic Throat Shifting Amused Enchanting Tilt

Book:Good For You

Source: Good For You

“I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.”

Knows Way Looks May Hands Eye Passion Wonder Mouths Skins Fingers Wide Excess Trash

Author:Holly Black

“With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.”

May Eye House Blood Wind Keys Mouths Ears Rounds Snow Flakes Rebuff

Author:Paul Celan

“A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs may be more subtle, but they are always there. A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.”

Kind May Ideas Self Running Sides Animal Mouths Grass Decent Silver Running Away Cows Spit Meadows Sinister Underworld

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“Ethel said: "Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember-" Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into his arms. She hugged him. She looked into his green eyes, then kissed his brown cheeks and his broken nose and then his mouth. "I love you, Lloyd," she sad madly. "I love you, I love you, I love you." "I love you, too, Daisy," he said. Behind her, Daisy heard Ethel's wry voice. "You do remember, I see.”

May Said Eye Remember Voice Behinds Heard Love You Broken Arms Mouths Green Noses Ran Brown Cheeks Daisies Green Eyes Wry I Love You Too

Author:Ken Follett