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Kindness is very soft but it creates the hardest bond. — Debasish Mridha

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. — William Empson

Crowded rooms and lonesome tunes and very little sky. — Rod McKuen

The heart of standing is you cannot fly. — William Empson

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly. — William Empson

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. — William Empson

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. — William Empson

Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture. — William Empson

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. — William Empson

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson

Sometimes the walk to the doctors is a better cure than the medicine you receive — Benny Bellamacina

When Love And Jealousy
Collide On The Slopes,
Winter Break Turns Deadly — Richelle Mead

You get so much out of the extra effort that you put into looking your best. — Dania Ramirez

I'm fascinated by America ... it's so odd. — John Prine

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. — William Empson

Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us. — Khalil Gibran

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. — William Empson

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there. — William Empson

This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it. — William Empson

All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell. — William Empson

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them. — William Empson

Poetry contains nothing haphazard. — William Empson

My boyfriend always says that if it weren't for him I'd probably get rid of my apartment and live nowhere, and he's right. — Cassandra Clare

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. — William Empson

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said. — William Faulkner

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. — William Empson

Here, it seemed muscle wasn't made of flesh and blood, it was made of will and anger. — Neal Shusterman

Sam nodded. "I was right about you. — L.L. Collins

Money they got at their wedding. She watched The — Jodi Picoult

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson