#burst

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. ↗

— George MacDonald

#bursts #decay #fresh #husk #life

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. ↗

— Robert Peel

#burst #courage #his #indignation #man

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#being a lady #bursts #i #lady #last

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#assignment #avatar #book #burst #expression

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears. ↗

— Randy Bachman

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I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#above #being #bottles #british #bursting

Music is an outburst of the soul. ↗

— Frederick Delius

#outburst #soul

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#bloom #burst #go #happen #hope

The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#bottle #burst #down #extraordinary #first