“The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.” WorldWarLosesGreaterQuietMountainOceanStrikesCivil WarUnnecessaryNestsFiringLegionSwarmsFortsHornets Author:Robert Toombs
“Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.” PeopleWritingIdeasWaitingRocksFlowerQuietStonesMetaphorStrikesNo IdeaWeedSplitsSnakesReconcile Book:The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962 Source: The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962
“The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.” PoliticalJudgingQuietBallsStrikesIdeologyParksUmpiresCourtroomPolitical IdeologyQuiet Place Author:Lindsey Graham
“The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth.” IfsHandsEarthForceStarsGeniusQuietRedOvercomingCalmStrikesTerrificBoltsVolcanoesGravitationQuiet Strength Author:Peter Bayne
“In some ways I think it [the strike] was important. I'm not sure that "worth it" is the right term, but it was important. A lot of people lost a lot of things - I was greatly concerned for our crews. Those are the people who really sort of paid. A lot of us in quiet ways did everything that we could to help people pay mortgages.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantHelpingLostTermPayQuietConcernedPaidStrikesNot SureWorth ItCrewMortgage Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.” WarPresidentLosesQuietMountainOceanMurderSuicideStrikesCivil WarNestsLegionSwarmsHornets Author:Robert Toombs
“O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens.” KnowsYearsBelieveHeartLongHas BeensStillsEndsLightFacesHouseHeavenStarsVoiceWhiteCitiesVisionHeardSkyPrayingThousandQuietAll ThingsShiningStrikesPassingPassingsBoatClockRaysAnxiousThousand YearsPassed AwayImmensity Author:Rainer Maria Rilke