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Expectation I'm in an expectation Only the children are passing near it playing slowly with everything existing around them from buildings ready to collapse to the most pure form of some streets surrended to wind every day. They are...

Quote by Andrei Novac about expectation, children, clothes, sky, purity, day, life

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but...

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Quote by Francis Bacon about revenge, enemies, man

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of...

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when...

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.

Quote by Russell Baker about poetry, world

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about events, things, time

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Quote by Julie Christie about affair, americans, time, love

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Quote by Bill Gates about death

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about difficulties, pleasure, success, life

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence, reason, woman, thinking, nothing, life

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an...

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about man, history

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about body, world

Thus we live, with every passing moment, our own Death! If our Life were a reflection in exactly what we are, this would mean that we mirror and we refer to ourselves, even though we refer to what we are not, coming to live in a parallel world...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about god, shadow, impossible, death, things, moment, world, life

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone...

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

Quote by Knut Hamsun about olderness, age, old

Migrant or pilgrim? There is a difference. A migrant is looking for heaven on earth. A pilgrim is looking for heaven higher than the earth: he knows heaven is inside. It is a spiritual settlement. In this country of migrants, a pilgrim is a...

Quote by Vasile Andru about opinion, earth, happiness, country

What angel saves, /strong> What saves angel, in century, the rose from neutral coloring, I still know. Beyond, I do not know the ritual: what angel saves neurosis when the tears, in harps, are passing a blood as the one from tarnished...

Quote by Serban Foarta about poetry, angels, tears, blood, flowers, grace

The ideal of my life was and remained the duty that I think was given to me at birth, by the fate fairy, for being useful on this land, to my people. I have tried to leave traces of my passing on Earth. As lasting as possible.

Quote by Ion Marin Almajan about ideal, fairy tales, destiny, duty, earth, being, life, people

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

OQuote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, contentment

The shadowlike a ball of smokelike the second cast away by the hourike a wonderit was passing over worldlike the bird without wingsas thevoiceless cry.

IQuote by Ion Dumbrava about poetry, smoke, shadow, miracle, world

For me, the day I was born is like any other day. An autumn day, in which you feel very alive the chills of school year beginning, the academic year (in my time). I am not scared by the passing of the time, I am trying to treasure every moment...

Quote by Cornelia Maria Savu about birthday, autumn, treasure, day, humor, beginning, school, time, self-control, being

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