...A shadow now occasionally crossed my simple, sanguine, and life enjoying mind, a notion that I was never really going to accomp...lish those powerful literary works which would blow a noble trumpet to social generosity and noblesse oblige before the world. What? should I find myself always planning and never achieving ... a richly complicated and yet firmly unified novel?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling,... Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,-- A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal,... yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of t...he revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. Howeve...r feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor. For God is in the sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lo...st track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off--you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed... The azure flowers that blow; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima reclined, Gazed on the lake below.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »