Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Blue Quotes

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

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Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Eye Quotes , Blue Quotes

The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and the flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Stars Quotes , Blue Quotes

When seen from outer space, our beautiful blue planet has no national boundaries.

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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Eye Quotes , Blue Quotes

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Blue Quotes , Long Quotes

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Cat Quotes , Blue Quotes

What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth.... In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Blue Quotes

I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Flower Quotes , Blue Quotes

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Blue Quotes , Long Quotes

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Blue Quotes , China Quotes

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Spring Quotes , Blue Quotes

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Blue Quotes , Hands Quotes

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

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As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Blue Quotes

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Army Quotes , Blue Quotes

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Science Quotes , Blue Quotes

The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Blue Quotes , Musical Quotes

Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not... Spring’s messenger in every spot, Smiling on all—"Remember me!

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Spring Quotes , Blue Quotes