"Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came."

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Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press

Sidney Lanier

#Tree Quotes #Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean”
“I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.”
“As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.”
“The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.”

Source : "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.
“It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.”
“There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”
“Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.”

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