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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
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death Percivalothers through sheer inability to cross the street.
(Adeline) Virginia ne e Stephen Woolf— 1931TheWaves.
Thus falling, falling from afar,As if some melancholy starHad mingled with her light her sighs,And dropped them from the skies.
— Poem Rosalie
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
thomas boston— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 207.
There was a young fellow from Trinity,Who took the square root of infinity.But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
george gamow— One, Two, Three... Infinity (1947)
You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.
jake lamotta— Words spoken to Sugar Ray Robinson after their sixth fight, 1951. [1]
Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.
david lange— Source: David Lange, My Life (2005), p.98
— Referring to his former Cabinet colleague Dr Michael Bassett, who was delivered by his Doctor father.
[T]he man who accused Richard Simmons of slapping him in an airport has dropped the assault charge. dropped it! Upon hearing the news, Simmons sadly responded, "You mean I'm not going to prison?"
dennis miller— 3 June 2004
"Turkey must show its teeth to Armenia." "What harm would it do if a few bombs were dropped on the Armenian side by Turkish troops holding maneuvers on the border?"
turgut Özal— The New York Times, (April 18, 1993)
— Said when discussing the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
anna akhmatova— As translated by Stanley KunitzThen fell the word of stone on
My still existing, still heaving breast.
Never mind, I was not unprepared, and
Shall manage to adjust to it somehow.Translated by D. M. Thomas
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
anthony de mello— p. 177 (One Minute Nonsense (1992))
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long Even wondered at, because he dropped no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more; Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
john dryden— Act IV, scene i.
“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.” “What a surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.” “How nice for you that you don’t have to.” “Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.” “Just so.”
ellen kushner— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392)
If her hunch was right, the earl’s explorations were connected in some way to ley travel: that peculiar phenomenon that had plucked her from the twenty-first century and dropped her so rudely into the seventeenth.
stephen r. lawhead— p. 105 (The Bone House (2011))
I have found few lesbians with whom I can discourse for more than five minutes without hitting some tiresome barrier of resentment or ideology. … Again and again over the decades, as I did my time, in frustrated boredom, in lesbian bars, trying with spectacular lack of success to make friends or just converse, I would end up gabbing for hours with some stray gay man. He might have dropped out of school at fourteen, but he had opinions, tastes, energy, wit. Is there something innately different about the gay male brain? ?
camille paglia— p. 74 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.
celia thaxter— The Nestling Swallows, in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 20.
Mechanical engineering is now the largest branch, with nearly 40 percent of the profession's members. Civil engineering, which was the largest branch prior to World War II, has dropped to second place, with about 25 percent of all engineers.
— United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics (1951) Effect of defense program on employment outlook in engineering. p. 18
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.
— P. 479. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word flirtation, which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world, and which has since received the sanction of our most accurate Laureate in one of his comedies.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, The World, No. 101. Lady Frances Shirley referred to Poet-Laureate, Colley Cibber.
As pleasant songs, at morning sung, The words that dropped from his sweet tongue Strengthened our hearts; or, heard at night, Made all our slumbers soft and light.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part I.
And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.
— Jean Ingelow, Laurance, Part III.
The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves And blossom, under heavens of happy blue.
jean ingelow— Jean Ingelow, Songs with Preludes, Wedlock; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
“I heard it clearly, and so did everyone else, I’ll be bound. Your name, dear, not mine. I am very popular. You, it seems, are not.” “What a surprise.” He dropped petals on the floor. “And what a good thing I don’t care.” “How nice for you that you don’t have to.” “Meaning,” he drawled, “that you do.” “Just so.”
— Part IV, Chapter V (p. 392) (The Privilege of the Sword (2006))
The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dun, As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.
edwin arnold— Edwin Arnold, Light of Asia, Book II, line 466.
Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.
— J. R. MacDuff, p. 159. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Consider the world as an abode where in you have dropped down for an hour, then you have got to leave it and go ahead; or (suppose it is) like the wealth which you lay hands upon in a dream and become over-joyed and glad. Then you wake up to find yourself empty handed.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.287
I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.”
— James Patterson in “Roses are Red (Alex Cross 6)” p.164
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
— Anthony de Mello, in One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 177
