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«Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.»
Author: James Bryce
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
allegiance, flag, flag waving, owed, righteous, waving
«You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
drug, hunting, hunting knife, knife, razor-sharp, razor, Razors, sharp, the hunt, waving
«All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.»
«A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.»
«I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice... Forget it.»
Author: Matt Groening
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
abomination, co, conspirator, conspirators, flag, flag waving, fraud, impertinence, indefensible, pledge, Republicans, underhanded, waving
«Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.»
«You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
drug, hunting, hunting knife, knife, razor-sharp, razor, Razors, waving
«The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.»
«'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
addressing, Alice, gracefully, lily, talking to, The Tiger, tiger, tiger lily, waving
«Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
above, at peace, beautiful, Beautiful Life, brown, browned, browning, browns, death, earth, forget, forgive, Forgive and forget, For No One, grasses, grassing, have, head, head up, in no time, In the, lay out, lie, lie in, life, listen, listen in, morrow, morrows, must, musts, no., no, No Wave, one at a time, Only Yesterday, peace, silence, silences, silencing, soft, The Brown, The Forgotten, time, Time Life, to be, waving, with, yesterday
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