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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
I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.
Geoffrey Norman Blainey— 2002 Statement following revelations of her links to the convicted conman Peter Foster,10 Dec.
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).
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)
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))
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.
"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.
Those we loved, they’re dead.Faces behind hands, shyshawls dropped, modestly awry.Those we love, they’re married.
andrás petöcz— A BANAL POEM, SUBJECT: LOVE (1984)
— András Pet?cz: In Praise of the Sea (1999, ISBN 963 9101 51 6)
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]
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.
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
robert frost— "Out, Out —"
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
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.
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— p. 82 (The Courage to Be (1952))
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.
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))
“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))
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
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
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim . And I'd despise the one who gave up.
— Abraham Maslow, in A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective, p.431
