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«Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.»
Author: Akhenaton | About: Honor | Keywords: flesh, garment, put on, separation
«I open up a big cabinet, and I have a collection of helmits. I put on the different helmets, and I take tree bottles of Robitussin and drink them really quickly. Then I set my hands on fire-I have to write whatever comes to mind pretty fast, before my hand burnsoff.I just let whatever comes out, comes out without thinking about it to much. Some of it I keep, some I toss out, some of it I turn into giant cigarettes and somke 'em. I think everybodu should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.»
«Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.»
Author: George Allen (Coach) | Keywords: cheat, put on
«Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.»
«A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth»
Author: Henrik Ibsen | About: Freedom, Mankind, Men, Truth | Keywords: goes out, put on, trousers
«A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.»
«Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.»
«If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.»
«For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.»
«Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.»