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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 kissestattered 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
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 greybird, sluggish, in my chest. — Osip Mandelstam
I envy everyone secretly,I secretly love everything. — Osip Mandelstam
Only in Russia poetry is respectedit 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
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.
— Osip Mandelstam
The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo 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