#away

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. ↗

— Anaxagoras

#exceedingly #live #men #mine #quiet

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops! ↗

— Marc Anthony

#born #first #her #him #make

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#away #blood #children #crown #deprived

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#amount #away #certain #character #charm

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#away #been #career #character #days

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. ↗

— William Langewiesche

#faraway #forms #little #many #place

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#gun #his #horse #i #lessons

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ↗

— Standing Bear

#becomes #hard #heart #man #nature

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny