Quotes with cries

  • I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.

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  • George Eliot Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Sam Slick Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately.
    Sam Slick
     
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  • Thomas Paine Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bill Hybels God-honoring prayers are not simply shopping lists. They are more than cries for help, strength, mercy and miracles. Authentic prayer should include worship, submission, requests, and confessions.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Abigail Adams I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Frank Capra I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
    Frank Capra
    American film director (1897 - 1991)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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