To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
William Butler YeatsRead
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)
I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
With rebellion, awareness is born
Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.
Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.
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