We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
Sylvia Plath
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JONI MITCHELL If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
TACITUS If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
C.S. LEWIS Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ...
WALT WHITMAN The qualities all in a bee that we meet,
In an epigram never should fail;
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KENNETH EADE Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
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WALT WHITMAN My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only th...
SYLVIA PLATH Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive b...
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JOSHUA VILLORIA I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
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CHARLES KENNEDY If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.
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SYLVIA PLATH If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.
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MEGAN MCCAFFERTY In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
FRANK HERBERT Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as th...
SYLVIA PLATH What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a rive...
CASSANDRA CLARE On paper it's unlikely we should beat them, but they haven't won the meet yet.
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ROY T. BENNETT Keep in mind that fortified foods should be treated like supplements only to help you meet nutrie...
KAREN COLLINS When important parts in us, are compatible with important parts in another, and we meet -- a friends...
TERENCE T. GORSKI Some people meet you for a reason, while others meet you to stay there in your life.
AKANSH MALIK Our team is designed for a meet like this. We have a strong team all around and should score well.
HARRY GROVES At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY We decided our top floor should be a place where you could get away from the loud music, meet new pe...
IAN BISHOP Throughout this journey of life we meet many people along the way.
Each one has a purpose in ou...
MIMI NOVIC That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a p...
HOWARD ZINN If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears
LORD BYRON To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't ...
AVRIL LAVIGNE We felt we should have done a lot better in last year's county meet. We felt like we were probably t...
CHRIS HARDIN Every person you meet in your life is your destiny. We alter the course of every life we touch, whet...
DANNIKA DARK The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH We came into this meet feeling maybe a little more confident than we should have. Now we see how muc...
CARRIE CHYKALIUK In secret we met -
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit decei...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Sometimes in life we are meant to meet but not meant to be
MONISH SHARMA Our team understands that we're going to be facing great competition from all over the state. If we ...
MATT BEATTY I'll keep you in my heart, until we meet again.
CADIR LAMPE Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.
ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - do...
AVRIL LAVIGNE How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
JOHN MILTON I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should ...
BILLY STRAYHORN ...If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...
MAHATMA GANDHI We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no no...
MOHANDAS GANDHI There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I...
WILLIAM TYNDALE In the world of excellence, education must meet global standards, but there should also be equity fo...
KAPIL SIBAL There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu...
VIV ALBERTINE If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.
CASSANDRA CLARE There are two classes of people we meet everyday in life;The rich & the poor.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The angels you meet in life may be little devils in disguise.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON Meet me in Montauk...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It was an oversight, ... I think because we don't meet in the summer ... it kind of got by. I think ...
MICHAEL DIXON I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government sho...
BILLY STRAYHORN When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab s...
MAHMUD OTHMAN Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
ELVIS PRESLEY It was a good experience for us. We got valuable experience that should benefit us when we return th...
ALTON TYRE One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences
another, on and on, unti...
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ARLAINA TIBENSKY I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on ...
MICHAEL PALIN In my judgment, ... the only person with nerve is Howard Dean, who continues to take the African- Am...
KEN MEHLMAN Keep Moving Forward
MEET THE ROBINSONS What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.
RAM DASS DISAPPOINTMENT ALWAYS RESULTS WHEN YOU DON'T MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS IN LIFE.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I...
LAUREN KATE If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest ...
BERNIE SANDERS In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.
C.S. LEWIS We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
YAMI GAUTAM East Mims was for blacks, west was for white, and never the twain should meet.
FRANK BEISLER Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neith...
SHANNON L. ALDER We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM We should check the large amount of air traffic and air cargo between the United States and Asia thr...
HON IP The minute you decide to have children (is when you should sign up for childcare). I like to meet th...
HEATHER HUNTER It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive agai...
BIBLE When you reach a point in your life and you know you want to meet someone who shares your religious ...
GAIL LAGUNA I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh...
ANNE CARSON Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted.
BHAGAVID-GITA ...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a sh...
SYLVIA PLATH I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
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SYLVIA PLATH Mad Girl's Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
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SYLVIA PLATH I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
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I am t...
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SYLVIA PLATH I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the t...
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SYLVIA PLATH I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
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SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
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SYLVIA PLATH One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
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SYLVIA PLATH That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
SYLVIA PLATH My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated...
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SYLVIA PLATH I am too pure for you or anyone.
From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962
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SYLVIA PLATH Ennui
Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
designing futures where nothing...
SYLVIA PLATH I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATH Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
SYLVIA PLATH If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.
SYLVIA PLATH I don't know how long I kept at it...
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and la...
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SYLVIA PLATH Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
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SYLVIA PLATH I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
SYLVIA PLATH My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing ...
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SYLVIA PLATH I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly con...
SYLVIA PLATH Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
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SYLVIA PLATH So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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SYLVIA PLATH How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
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SYLVIA PLATH I think I may well be a Jew.
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SYLVIA PLATH I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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"Oh, sure you know," the photogr...
SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ...
SYLVIA PLATH My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...
SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the ...
SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you?
SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy?
SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea...
SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...
SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...
SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m...
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