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Letter "P" » pause
«A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name»
«It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.»
«In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.»
Author: John Dobbin
| About:
Bed,
Sex
| Keywords:
in reality, laziness, open-eyed, pause, restart, rewarded, shutdown
«If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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Beethoven, composed, even as, hosts, Michelangelo, painted, pause, pausing, Shakespeare, sweep, sweeper, sweepers, wrote
«He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
as good as, As Good as Dead, awe, awed, awes, closed, in awe of, pause, rapt
«Between the dark and the daylight, / When the night is beginning to lower, / Comes a pause in the day's occupations, / That is known as the Children's Hour.»
«If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
black book, black people, courageously, Historians, inject, injected, injecting, injects, pause, protest, veins
«He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjustment, comparison, Expedients, intercept, intercepting, intercepts, lay out, pause, probabilities
«Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, / And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; / There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, / Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.»
«For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life»
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