Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning
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ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pede...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so b...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet/ And master and make crouch beneath his foot, / And so be p...
ROBERT BROWNING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the...
HENRY MILLER It's dramatic monologues, almost like Robert Browning.
JOSEPH GRAVES Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or no...
LEONE LEVI At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD For man is man, and master of his fate.
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character
ROBERT BROWNING Adam may have been tempted by Eve but then Apples are only seasonal fruit.
AMIT ABRAHAM The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND The watchman oversees the field of another, but the field belongs to his master, while he must get u...
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ANDY CROUCH Generally speaking, a man speaks occasionally lies with his mouth to the women to a required measure...
ANUJ SOMANY ...instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you righ...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I was...
MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, wh...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
GEORGE ORWELL Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil.
MARC WILLIAMS Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So acti...
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energie...
ANDY CROUCH A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOOK For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, j...
C.S. LEWIS For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
D. H. LAWRENCE For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
D.H. LAWRENCE I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he...
RETTA Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile...
ALFRED HAMILTON BARR It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long a...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Ivanov: A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it comes out in y...
ANTON CHEKHOV He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and thin...
MIKHAIL NAIMY The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...
GEORGE ORWELL Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and
evermore he takes the Tool of Th...
JAMES ALLEN We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent - see,...
ANDREA DWORKIN I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he wi...
WHITNEY HOUSTON It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. A man is not where he lives, but where he loves
LATIN PROVERB God creates the whirls in the water, demons create mazes under water and man gets confused.
APURVA GAGLANI No young man believes he shall ever die
WILLIAM HAZLITT Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.
LAUREN BACALL He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man [Leonardo Dicaprio], yet he doesn't think he's ...
KATE WINSLET There is perhaps no one who gives so much pain to a man but a woman who enters in his life as girlfr...
ANUJ SOMANY I do not find that piety benefits a man who practises it unless he controls his tongue. Certainly, t...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hay quien prefiere ser el primer amor. Yo he preferido siempre ser el último.
RAMóN DEL VALLE INCLáN The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist, Jack.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems thems...
CARL SANDBURG What the hell," I said, pushing off the wall, ready to take off the head of whatever stupid salesper...
SARAH DESSEN To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through ...
CHARLES DICKENS Naked a man comes from his mother’s womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from hi...
KING SOLOMON To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for...
HELEN P. BLAVATSKY The ability to make wise choices is the most valuable skill a person can develop.
ABHISHEK RATNA By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign a...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE Let every man be master of his fate.
KHALID MASOOD He will sign until there are no more people. But (Crouch) wants to be home in time to put his kids t...
JODI SMALLCOMB I'm just shy, ... I wanted to meet Robert because I liked his acting. But he was looking at me funny...
VAL KILMER The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be goo...
LINDA FESTA Man does not live in isolation, we depend upon each other.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked
man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES We felt that Robert had to have qualities that Jeffrey and Elaine hadn't encountered before. Not jus...
CRAIG LUCAS He wasn’t sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot ...
KEVIN WALLIS Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while
And like a peacock sweep along his tail;
We'll pull his...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He di...
DALE CARNEGIE I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.
Before I was your moth...
BETH LYON BARNETT Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of ...
JAMES ALLEN Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of T...
JAMES ALLEN And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes
to her feet, as they steal in and o...
WILLIAM CONGREVE As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we beg...
M.L. VON FRANZ From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has o...
JACQUES COUSTEAU Naked a man comes from his mothers womb,
and as he comes, so he departs.
He takes nothin...
KING SOLOMON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER A man must be potent and orgasmic to ensure the future of the race.
A woman only needs to be avai...
MASTERS AND JOHNSON The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
GLASER AND WAY Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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The buttercups, the little children's dower.
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Best to forget.
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A man's worth something.
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Or what's a heaven for?
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What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
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Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
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before;
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In his good time.
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Man as yet.
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Queen Mary's saying serves for me--
(When fortune's malice
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And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
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Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;
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Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting u...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedesta...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so b...
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That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to m...
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to do nothing.
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May ravage with impunity a rose.
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Of speaking truth - ...
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To rise to the completer life of one--
And those who live ...
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ROBERT BROWNING Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
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ROBERT BROWNING All's over, then; does truth sound bitter / As one at first believes? / Hark, 'tis the sparrows' goo...
ROBERT BROWNING I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tourn...
ROBERT BROWNING Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
ROBERT BROWNING Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly...
ROBERT BROWNING All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
ROBERT BROWNING One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
ROBERT BROWNING How very hard it is / To be a Christian!
ROBERT BROWNING I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
ROBERT BROWNING Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
ROBERT BROWNING Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
ROBERT BROWNING Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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