#r

When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins, And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save I wait for the one who will see through my seeming, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens; The ladies went by me like snow on the wind. I charmed and I cheated, deceived and dissembled, And I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them see There's part of me pure as the whisk of a wave. My lady is late but she'll find I've been faithful, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' At last came a lady both knowing and tender, Saying, 'you're not at all what they take you to be.' I betrayed her before she had quite finished speaking, And she swallowed cold poison and jumped in the sea. And I say to myself when there's time for a word, As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved, 'Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#destructiveness #habit #lament #sin #vice

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off. ↗

— Stephen King

#humor #religion #family

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. ↗

— Omar Epps

#doubt #instincts #lot #make #tend

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#class #come #decisive #defeat #may

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#comes #limit #margins #miss #much

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#civil #civil rights #columbia #district #district of columbia

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#american #american people #appoint #believe #business

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#debate #doing #federal #federal government #government

A camel is a horse designed by committee. ↗

— Alec Issigonis

#committee #designed #horse

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#because #been #bush #champion #emphasized