"Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side."

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Source : Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.695

Sir John Davies

#Garden Quotes #Sides Quotes #Spiders Quotes

“I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.”
“Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.”
“A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.”
“You canâ€™t lose with the stuff I use!â€; â€œSome may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!â€; â€œThe best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of themâ€; â€œGod doesnâ€™t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!â€; and â€œIf itâ€™s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesnâ€™t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”
“I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.”
“The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.”
“I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I go to the gym. I do yoga as well.”
“People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.”

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