The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ... CAREW PAPRITZ The Legislature has done the hard work of picking up the issue of the day, holding public hearings, ... MARK LENO I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city... CHRIS KATTAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The work force is the first and foremost priority -- making sure that they are safe, and that they a... KYLE HERRING What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Clients are in the same position as agencies. They are looking for a person who has all of the attri... SARAH FAY A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE The work force is the first and foremost priority -- making sure that they are safe, and that t... KYLE HERRING Even after it all, would you dance with me again in the eye of the storm?” “I'd dance... DIANNA HARDY Growing up in Boston and dancing in the streets, you see a lot of things. DANNY WOOD Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all ... PETER HøEG We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ... OSHO There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mista... WALTER C. WRIGHT Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in... ENRICO CARUSO People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic tha... PETER DAVISON I love the make-up trailer. It's a great way to start the day, drinking coffee and singing along... EMILY BERRINGTON Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte... DAVID LEVITHAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big B... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A middle-class man making $40,000 might not be able to buy a new BMW. But he can buy the occasional ... DAVID OZGO I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces. TAYE DIGGS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Picking our varsity squad was really hard because a lot of girls have stepped up. It's making all th... JAMIE ROTHE They were dancing in the streets, holding up their purple fingers. They were so proud and they were ... DAN GREGG You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic m... CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed... BRENT M. JONES No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... BEN ELTON In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION We were discussing Coretta Scott King [who died in January] and how we as individuals should be pick... EVA MCLEOD I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I l... MOLLIE KING Dancing in the Streets. MARTHA REEVES Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I've met people in the last year or two who have stopped going to their local church because people ... N.T. WRIGHT A lot of people were cheering us up when we were up there. They were laughing, dancing. They were ni... DAX MAIER Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are inventing a new distribution channel. DOUG EDWARDS I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ... PAUL DIRAC The people down there voted to connect to sewers, 21-10. These are the last two streets in Milford b... PAUL AUSTIN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings THOMAS SOWELL Who are you?” I asked. “Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. ... NICO J. GENES ... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the... MARCEL PROUST When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG One of the things we've been puzzling over here in the U.S. is that people haven't been dancing in t... ANDREW CLARK Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Wh... GARY HAMEL We are picking up people who might not have thought about accounting before. BRAD SARGENT I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there a... RUSSELL PETERS He's one of the most charismatic guys on the team. Off the field he is always dancing and singing to... KYLE BELL It's a lot of single people who are new to town. People who work as programmers during the day and a... AMY HUGHES Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war HOMER Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. HOMER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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