#lain

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#hollywood #me #priests #usually #villains

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#base #heaven #high #humble #i

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#brain #deeply #doth #folded #folds

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#contain #death #eighty #every #grief

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. ↗

— Tacitus

#another #another day #away #battle #day

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda. ↗

— Jim Talent

#also #come #conservative #exactly #explain

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#i #man #poverty #slain #were

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#cease #explaining #go #shall #understand

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#actions #agreeing #explaining #his #need