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since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E. E. CummingsRead
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
Richard WrightRead
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William ShakespeareRead
In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end.
Marilyn FrenchRead
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Susan B. AnthonyRead
Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.
Saint AugustineRead
If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.
Dale CarnegieRead
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
Lily TomlinRead
The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. _x000D_ Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. _x000D_ Some of us break and throw it. _x000D_ Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. _x000D_ Better to stay far from extremes.
Shams TabriziRead
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
Tom ShippeyRead
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Ambrose BierceRead
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Tupac ShakurRead
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William ShakespeareRead
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. SeussRead
Beware of making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.
Charles SpurgeonRead
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Thomas GrayRead
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
Ben JonsonRead
The voice gets to the soul of a person more than any other instrument. Because it's the voice. It sings talks, it cries, it laughs, it squeals, it barks, it shouts it whispers, There is no other instrument that can do that. We're born with it.
Bobby McferrinRead
Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
Yasmin MogahedRead

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