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Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle. — Rita Rudner

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits - a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed. — Alyson Noel

Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it. — Jessica Joelle Alexander

I am wearied to death with life.
There's nothing it has that I want,
but I celebrate my naked earth,
there's no other world to descant. — Osip Mandelstam

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom. — Anne Bradstreet

Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. — Osip Mandelstam

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,
But I am no wolf by blood. — Osip Mandelstam

For us, all that's left is kisses
tattered as the little bees
that die when they leave the hive. — Osip Mandelstam

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed. — Osip Mandelstam

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other. — Osip Mandelstam

He hates surface talk. He wants to dive right through it. With anyone. Because anyone he talks to seems to have something worthwhile to say. — David Levithan

A good friend is the one who stand up for you and not the one who sells you out — Beta Metani'Marashi

From Shore To Shore
Our Message of Love & Peace
To ALL OUR Kids — Widad Akreyi

A raznochinets needs no memory - it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips. — Osip Mandelstam

I want you now so awfully, No longer jealous-green, I bring myself as offering Up to the guillotine. — Osip Mandelstam

I carry Sorrow, a grey
bird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam

I envy everyone secretly,
I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.' — Johnny Weir

Only in Russia poetry is respected
it gets people killed. — Osip Mandelstam

She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. — Prince Andrew

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. — Simone Weil

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. — Osip Mandelstam

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping?? — Ana Claudia Antunes

I just love the history of acting. It's such a beautiful craft and you absolutely get out of it what you put into it. — Miles Teller

The earth is buzzing with metaphor — Osip Mandelstam

You don't win friends with salad. — Homer

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. — Osip Mandelstam

The people need poetry that will be their own secret
To keep them awake forever,
And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. — Osip Mandelstam

The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels. — Osip Mandelstam

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam

Everything is moved by love. — Osip Mandelstam