Thingand Quotes
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For a tear is an intellectual thing,And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King,And the bitter groan of the martyr's woeIs an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
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More Thingand Quotes
Although we sought to do the right thingand believed we were doing the right thingin my judgement, hindsight proves us wrong.
— 1995 In Retrospect: The tragedy and lessons of Vietnam (with Brian Van de Mark).
A lot of people build very stiff puppets--you can barely move the thing--and you can get very little expression out of a character that you can barely move. Your hand has a lot of flexibility to it, and what you want to do is to build a puppet that can reflect all that flexibility.
— Jim Henson p. 19, 21 (Jim Henson: The Works (1993))
A popular Judge is a deformed thing:;:and plaudites are fitter for players than for magistrates. Do good to the people:;; love them, and give them justice; but let it be as the psalm says, 'nihil inde expectantes,' looking for nothing, neither praise nor profit.
— Bacon, Speech in the Star Chamber before the Summer Circuits (1617), Bacon's Works, Vol. VI., 141, 194, 244.
He weren't no saint—but at jedgmentI'd run my chance with Jim.'Longside of some pious gentlemenThat wouldn't shook hands with him.He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing—And went for it thar and then;And Christ ain't a-going to be too hardOn a man that died for men.
john hay— Jim Bludso, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
