Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chance...s of saving himself by hell than by paradise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Did you ever hear the story about the fighter that was losing badly to the other guy? He's getting the hell kicked out of him and ...he comes back to his corner between rounds and his manager says, "Keep up the good work, kid, because the other guy isn't laying a glove on you." And the fighter says, "Then you'd better keep your eye on the referee because somebody is kicking the shit out of me."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When he became all eye when one was present, and all memory when one was gone; when the youth becomes the watcher of windows, and ...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage, when no place is too solitary, and none too silent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surrou...nd one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Delusions that shrink to the size of a woman's glove, Then sicken inclusively outwards:... . . . the incessant recital Intoned by reality, larded with technical terms, Each one double-yolked with meaning and meaning's rebuttal: For the skirl of that bulletin unpicks the world like a knot....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can l...augh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You had been travelling for days With an old lady, who marked... A neat circle on the glass With her glove, to watch us Move into the wet darkness Kissing, still unable to speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If I hit him, he'll hit me too," Anton Petrovich thought in a flash. He pulled off the glove with a final yank and threw it awkwa...rdly at Berg. The glove slapped against the wall and dropped into the washstand pitcher. "Good shot," said Berg.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser ma...y say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »