There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles ... but there is one order of beauty... which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief--a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before... air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents--or at least their staffs--never stop making mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake,... this blessing love gives again into our arms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suddenly, she wasn't drunk anymore. Her hand was steady and she was cool. Like somebody making funeral arrangements for a murder n...ot yet committed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,... Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do ...not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »