Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week bef...ore you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the yard across the street we saw a snowman holding a garbage can lid. smashed into a likeness of the mad English king, Ge...orge the Third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When peaceful clouds were reflected in the paddies and the water buffalo stepped surely along terraces,... maybe fathers told their sons old tales. When bombs smashed those mirrors there was time only to scream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins o...f Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the eighth, Hermanski smashed a drive to the scoreboard. Henrich backed against the board and leaped either four or fourteen fe...et into the air. He stayed aloft so long he looked like an empty uniform hanging in its locker. When he came down he had the ball.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits me...n to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »