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«All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.»
«I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.»
«A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.»
«In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.»
«I'm angry. I'm sad. It's a very difficult and sad time. It was a real deep connection, a deep marriage, so it's not that simple to say this or that one thing caused the problems. It's clear to me that our priorities shifted overnight. He's focused on his music and career. I'm focused on my baby.»
«ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.One day a wag --what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests.»
«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
«He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.»
«Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Fame, Food | Keywords: fame, fickle, plate, shifted, shifting, shifts
«Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder»

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