| "I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry." »Alan Bleasdale |
| "I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother." »W. C. Fields |
| "Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." »Norman Vincent Peale |
| "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." »William Gladstone |
| "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." »William Hazlitt |
| "It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing." »Marquis de Sade |
| "In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." »James Agee |
| "Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon |
| "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong |
| "I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno |
| "What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The |
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