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Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.
michael parenti— Chapter 10, p. 173
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
Raymond Chandler— On the moving of murder mysteries from the English country house to more realistic areas. Quoted in Contemporary Authors (1979).
The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knell Of a spent day.
(Harold) Hart Crane— 1932 'The Broken Tower', in the New Republic, 8 Jun.
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
john ruskin— 1881Letter.
The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don’t begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives — and millions may die there.
johann hari— "And the solution to the Iran crisis is...". JohannHari.com. January 22, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-01-26.
She dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face."By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."
leigh hunt— The Glove and the Lions
The inauguration went off very well except that the Vice President Elect was too drunk to perform his duties and disgraced himself and the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech. I was never so mortified in my life, had I been able to find a hole I would have dropped through it out of sight.
andrew johnson— Senator Zachariah T. Chandler in a letter to his wife, quoted in the US Senate Biography
I was early taught to work as well as play,My life has been one long, happy holiday;Full of work and full of play —I dropped the worry on the way —And God was good to me every day.
john d. rockefeller— Verses written on his eighty-sixth birthday (8 July 1925) [1]
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— The World, no. 101 (December 5, 1754).
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
christopher hitchens— "Its' a Good Time for War", Boston Globe, 8 September 2002 : On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
william james— Robert Gould Shaw: Oration upon the Unveiling of the Shaw Monument (31 May 1897)
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
steve jobs— On Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997)
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
samuel johnson— March 1781, p. 465.
A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. … First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. … The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others … The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben’s list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.
richard weaver— “Life without prejudice,” pp. 8-9
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
virginia woolf— p. 186 (The Waves (1931))
Steep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
Elizabeth Browning— Sleeping and Watching.
As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.
robert pollok— Robert Pollok, Course of Time, Book V, line 158.
Direct your arrows at objects without being personal; come near your hearers. Letters dropped into the post-office without address go to the dead-letter office, and are of no use to any body.
— John Hall, p. 479. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
"He shall not die, by God," cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in: and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
Laurence Sterne— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book VI, Chapter VIII.
If God dropped acid, would he see people ?
— Attributed to George Carlin in The Friars Club Encyclopedia of Jokes: Over 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs, and Put-Downs (2009) by H. Aaron Cohl and Barry Dougherty, p. 145; also attributed to Steven Wright, in The Things I Wish They'd Told Me. As I Was Growing Up (2010) by David Rankin, p. 97
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
— Steve Jobs on Bill Gates as quoted in "Creating Jobs" in The New York Times (12 January 1997).
One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in “spirit” was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.
paul tillich— Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be (1952), p. 82
Could you believe that 75 million years ago, Xenu froze hundreds of billions of people and dropped them into volcanoes on Earth, before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs?
— Julian Morrow, "Free Gullibility Test" segment on The Chaser's War On Everything (April 28, 2006) Season 1, Episode 9, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
j. m. barrie— Peter Pan (1911), also known as Peter and Wendy.
He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason.
john milton— 1665 Of Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.110-14.
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an Angel's wing.
william wordsworth— Part III, No. 5 - Walton's Book of Lives. Compare: "The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing / Made of a quill from an angel's wing", Henry Constable, Sonnet; "Whose noble praise / Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing", Dorothy Berry, Sonnet.
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an Angel's wing.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Part III. V. Walton's Book of Lives.
