To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plan...t, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What one really wants is youth, and what one really loses is years. Life becomes at last a mere piece of acting. One goes on by ha...bit, playing more or less clumsily that one is still alive. It is ludicrous and at times humiliating, but there is a certain style in it which youth has not. We become all, more or less, gentlemen; we are ancien régime; we learn to smile while gout racks us.... We get out of bed in the morning all broken up, without nerves, color or temper, and by noon we are joking with young women about the play. One lives in constant company with diseased hearts, livers, kidneys and lungs; one shakes hands with certain death at closer embrace every day; one sees paralysis in every feature and feels it in every muscle; all one's functions relax their action day by day; and, what is worse, one's grasp on the interests of life relaxes with the physical relaxation; and, through it all, we improve; our manners acquire refinement; our sympathies grow wider; our youthful self-consciousness disappears; very ordinary men and women are found to have charm; our appreciations have weight; we should almost get to respect ourselves if we knew of anything human to respect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grovelling, intimate words,... heart-stealing flattery, a tight embrace of my thinner-than-thin body, violent kisses all over-- obviously, getting angry is worth the risk, but even still, I'm not interested. My lover is dear to my heart, so how could I be like that on purpose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When her husband clutches at her dress, she lowers her face,... her modesty aroused. When he wants a wild embrace, she shyly secrets away her limbs. She can't say a word and bestows her gaze on her beaming friends. A new wife suffers with shame the first time she makes love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled ...business. For the experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things, abuseth them. The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of e...xistence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensati...ons are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth and kindness in sweet embrace, Righteousness and peace are God's grace;... For truth out of the earth does spring, And righteousness from heaven ring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to ...be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed endure,... and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a man's embrace to take me in, the need for just a word of praise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »