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  • The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.

    Night   Glasses   Mirrors  
  • About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.

    Half   Canada   Becoming  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

    Sex   Real   Dark  
    Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
  • Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes

  • Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

    Love   Single   Butterfly  
  • Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

    Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.477, Wordsworth Editions
  • He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

    Long   Mind   One Day  
    J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.117, Random House
  • When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.

    Fear   Mean   Night  
    Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.20, Faber & Faber
  • Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

    Fall   Past   Men  
    "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.
  • More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

    Peace   War   Government  
  • I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

    Military   War   Men  
  • There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  • I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?

    Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

  • l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

    Peace   Military   War  
    "Duty, Honor, Country: Two Memorable Addresses".
  • I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.

    War   Mean   Men  
    Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951
  • If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

    Integrity   Mean   Way  
    Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications
  • It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

    "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
  • Never settle for anything less than your best.

    Twitter post from Jul 27, 2015
  • I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

    Night   Mushrooms   Roots  
    Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

  • The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

    Forbes, August 4, 1980.
  • Love the one you're with.

    "Love the One You're With" (song) (1970) See Harburg 9
  • The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

    "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.
  • A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.

    "Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians". Book by Noam Chomsky, South End Press, p. 162, 1999.
  • Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

  • Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

    Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”
  • There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

    War   Mean   People  
  • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
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