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«Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.' If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers.»
«The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.»
Author: James Dale Davidson
| About:
Money,
Politicians
| Keywords:
dependent, helpless, Politicians, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, taxes, wear down, worn
«It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.»
«My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.»
«You gotta be careful with your body. Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down.»
«Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.»
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: ''We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer.''»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Forces of Evil, Hate You, inflict, Meeting Point, Negro, Philosophy of, physical force, plunge, plunges, pure white, quest, quest for, the South, to the point, wear down
«He that suffers the slightest breach in his morality can seldom tell what shall enter it, or how wide it shall be made; when a passage is open, the influx of corruption is every moment wearing down opposition, and by slow degrees deluges the heart»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
breach, corruption, degrees, deluge, deluges, influx, passage, slightest, The Deluge, wear down
«Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch»
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