“ Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking. ”
- Tim McMahon- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 81
“ In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. ”
- Geoffrey Chaucer- Copy
- 2.9K
“ On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me? ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin May fell through the parlor floor today. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2K
“ Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 116
“ Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 555
“ How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
- 1.5K
“ How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. ”
- Lydia Maria Child- Copy
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“ The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 322
“ We must also deal with the grave and growing danger posed by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein,... The Iraqi regime can either disarm, or be disarmed. The choice is theirs — but it can no longer be postponed. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
- 642
“ Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair. ”
- Louis Nizer- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Not a single spectator remained on his feet! Men, women children, all lay prostrate like ears of corn under a tempest. There ensued a terrible tumult; a large number of persons were seriously injured. J. T. Maston, who, despite all dictates of prudence, had kept in advance of the mass, was pitched back 120 feet, shooting like a projectile over the heads of his fellow-citizens. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
- 2.4K
“ All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds of feudal prejudice and usages… ”
- Hariet Marineau- Copy
- 3.8K
“ There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men. ”
- Tommaso Marinetti- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee. ”
- Colley Cibber- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings — as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 1.8K
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