#monument

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My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, “MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be -- if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being. But as hard as I had manifested Astrid Heyman with her hand in mine, her blue eyes gazing into mine, her lips whispering something wild and funny and outrageous in my ear, she had remained totally unaware of my existence. Truly, to even dream of dreaming about Astrid, for a guy like me, in my relatively low position on the social ladder of Cheyenne Mountain High, was idiotic. And with her a senior and me a junior? Forget it. Astrid was just lit up with beauty: shining blonde ringlets, June sky blue eyes, slightly furrowed brow, always biting back a smile, champion diver on the swim team. Olympic level. Hell, Astrid was Olympic level in every possible way.


Emmy Laybourne


#crushes #monument- #beauty

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.


J.D. Stroube


#chain #choice #course #decision #domino

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.


Richard Schickel


#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.


Harold Brodkey


#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.


George Will


#central #central government #country #government #hamilton

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.


Lafcadio Hearn


#english #english language #famous #great #james

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.


Lafcadio Hearn


#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.


Samantha Morton


#had #happened #i #material #monumental

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.


Edmund Spenser


#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.


Dick Durbin


#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list