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«To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Joy,
Love,
Risk
| Keywords:
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«If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.»
Author: Dorothy Gilman
| Keywords:
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«Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.»
Author: Herbert Gold
| About:
Careers,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
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«The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.»
Author: Thomas Griffith
| About:
Journalism,
Media
| Keywords:
abandoned, analyzed, anticipated, For some, novelty, reported, staged, The News, Wringing, wrings, wrung
«Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
aid, anticipated, assistance, astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, Evening Prayer, invoked, invokes, invoking, judged, Judge Not, looked-for, sweat, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Temptation wrings integrity even as the thumbscrew twists a man's fingers»
«Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
over again, splendid, suffered, troublesome, warfare, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The Messenger of Death seizes and holds her, and does not tell anyone his secret. And her loved ones - in an instant, they move on, leaving her all alone. She wrings her hands, her body writhes in pain, and she turns from black to white.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
Black Death, seizes, wrings, writhe, writhed, writhes, writhing
«Kiss the hand which you cannot wring.»
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