#grave

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Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.


Hugo Claus


#earth #feet #go #graves #guests

Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.


Howard Fineman


#american people #andy #anticipated #attack #being

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.


James Forrestal


#country #existence #extraordinarily #grave #grave threat

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.


Whitey Herzog


#definite #graveyard #i #interested #lights

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.


Thomas Hobbes


#deceased #empire #ghost #grave #other

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.


Thomas Hobbes


#blame #clean #grave #holy #light

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!


Victor Hugo


#am #art #earth #elsewhere #go

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.


Ralph Kiner


#casey #grave #his #spinning #today

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.


Wim Wenders


#building #cannot #cinema #european #fence