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Letter "S" » strings
«All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.»
«Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.»
«It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.»
Author: Stanley Milgram
| About:
Conformity,
Freedom
| Keywords:
controlled, liberation, puppet, puppets, strings
«There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
had better, Human heart, strings, vibrate, vibrated, Vibrates, vibrating
«IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH: / To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, / Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.»
«I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.»
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
«Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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strings
«A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings / And bats with baby faces in the violet light / Whistled.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
baby-faced, black light, face the music, fiddled, strings, whistled
«Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments; because a constant hold by the nation of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not to wish nor a corrupt one to be permitted to be f»
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