It will be the mistake of your life if you go into print in your own defence [sic]. Your denial will reach a new set of people and... start them to talking, while the ones who read the original charges will never see the refutation of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Silence is to all creatures thus attacked the only means of salvation; it fatigues the Cossack charges of the envious, the enemy's... savage ruses; it results in a cruising and complete victory.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 »
The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry.... You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead-- There were no birds to fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or intent, So those who enter death must go as little children sent.... Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping In the river, never heard... Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves Fling off their iron and cut the green, Leaving circles new and clean While overhead the wing-tips whirred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting o...ut at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the America...n people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »