"I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life."

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Source : Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.148, New Directions Publishing

Stevie Smith

#Heart Quotes #Knives Quotes

“Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, Ê»I would... but ye would not.Ê¼”
“He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.”
“Thereâ€™s 3 types of fans. Thereâ€™s the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that donâ€™t speak at all.”
“I went with my very being toward language.”
“Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is...”

Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.35, Mind Melodies
“The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.”
“And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.”
“Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.”

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