The obsession with suicide
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. Emile M. Cioran
Swerve
Where minds differ and
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. Elizabeth I
The difference between sentiment
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. Frank Herbert
Sound… if you look
Sound… if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they’re like you know they’re very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you’ll see a bird that doesn’t… you know smash right into a glass window. It’s very funny. DJ Spooky
Public opinion which, to
Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down. Cornelia Otis … Read more
And I suddenly think,
And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt. Colum McCann
Just swerve Golovkin like
Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don’t need to be in with him. Dangerous fight. Carl Froch
The Bible has come
The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man’s cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God’s enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God’s true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in … Read more
Do your duty, and
Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. Benjamin Haydon
They also live Who swerve
They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river. Archibald MacLeish