"I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Mean Quotes #Order Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.”
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”
“Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.”
“I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
“If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.”
“Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.”
“Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.”

Source : Joseph Haslewood, Edmund Bolton, Thomas Campion, George Gascoigne, Samuel Daniel (1815). “Ancient critical essays upon English poets and poesy”, p.14
“You don't adjust. You just dominate.”

Source : "The Raiders' man in black is back / Mysterious leader Davis garners respect even from foes" by Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2003.

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