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Whenever I prepare fora journey I prepare as though for death. Should Ineverreturn, all isinorder.Thisiswhat life has taught me.
Beauchamp— 1922 Journal entry, 29 Jan.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be fora token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 9:13.
A good eater must be a good man; fora good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
— 1831TheYoung Duke, bk.1, ch.14.
The best number for a dinner party is two: myself and a damn good head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian— In the Daily Telegraph (14 Jan. 1965)
Maybe atonetimetheycouldget Little Richard fora new car and a bucket of chicken.We don't roll like that no more.
— 2004 In Rolling Stone, 27 May.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
Susan Sontag— In the New York Review of Books, 26 January 1978.
Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day and the ship that runs in the sea with profit to men, and the water God sends down from heaven therewith reviving the earth after it is dead and His scattering abroad in it all manner of crawling thing, and the turning about of the winds and the clouds compelled between heaven and earth surely there are signs fora people having understanding.
The Koran— Sura 2, l.164.
O believers, be you securers of justice, witnesses for God.Let not detestation fora people move you not to be equitable.
The Koran— Sura 5, l.8.
'Scientific whaling'isliketheprostitutionoftheprofession: using the name of science fora totally bogus purpose.
— 2004 New Scientist, May.
Yes, the labour movement was truly religious, like Judaism itself. It was one of those things you believed in forall mankind and didn't care about fora second inyour own life.
— 1987 The Bonfire of theVanities, ch.8.
As armas e os barões assinalados Que, da ocidental praia lusitana Por mares nunca de antes navegados Passaram ainda além da Taprobana E em perigos e guerras esforçados Mais do que permitia a força humana Entre gente remota edificaram Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram.
— Arms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon's shore,
Thro' seas where sail was never spread before,
Beyond where Ceylon lifts her spicy breast,
And waves her woods above the watery waste,
With prowess more than human forc'd their way
To the fair kingdoms of the rising day:
What wars they wag'd, what seas, what dangers past,
What glorious empire crown'd their toils at last.
— Luís de Camões, opening lines of The Lusiads (1572), as translated by William Julius Mickle (1776).
I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now fora long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock-yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Frederic Henry— A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)
You can always count on a murderer fora fancy prose style.
vladimir nabokov— 1955 Humbert Humbert. Lolita, ch.1.
If youcannot have yourdear husband fora comfort and a delight, for a breadwinner and a crosspatch, for a sofa, chair or a hot-water bottle, one can use him as a Cross to be Borne.
— 1936 Novel OnYellow Paper.
Thisgoing into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle- aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brusselshotel fora group grope.
— 1975 OnBritain's entry into the EEC, in the SundayTimes, 27 Apr.
