Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Recitation: by Male by Female
But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
Mel Tillis
TodayNowYearsDaysBeenThan
The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.
John Madden
LiveHistoryBestGetting OlderYou
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
John Irving
FamilyPerfectBreadNiceSmell
The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.
Anand Giridharadas
ResponsibilityProblemCitizenship
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.
Rosa Parks
TimeDayPeopleTurnMassesJust
The majority of the time... the people that are critiquing and bashing me, they're making me more relevant, I would think. If you didn't want me around, then just don't talk about me, and try and make it silent out there.
Roman Reigns
TimePeopleMeThinkYouSilent
I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'
Mary Berry
CakePeopleThinkYouPersonWant
I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.
Marv Levy
WalkPoetryBookThinkDownKnow
At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.
Missy Peregrym
DayEnd Of The DayEndYouKind
Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.
Juan Felipe Herrera
PoetryPeopleSpeakLanguageDream
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
Josh Radnor
LifeMomentMy LifePersonalWrite
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
Jonathan Kozol
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