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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For nearly 40 years Johannes Meintjes has enriched the South African art scene with his personalised works which have the inherent quality of good art - the artist’s genuine feelings and moods can be felt in each brush or palette stroke… – Yvonne Steynberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk. – Anthon St Maarten	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The lead investigator, the person on the scene, the person that normally law enforcement would say is in the best position to there is prospect in arrest, he apparently was effectively overruled by people sitting back at the office. It does happen, but it certainly raises a lot of questions.” – Kendall Coffey	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.* – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived. – Elizabeth Jenkins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. – Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! – William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. – Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast. – Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity. – Edwin Markham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Faith--is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not. – Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period – Antonio Gramsci	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. – Vincent Canby	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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