... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.
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Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd ... MATTHEW ARNOLD I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,... MATTHEW SETTLE Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine. MATTHEW MCGRORY A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ... MATTHEW DESMOND In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&... MATTHEW RHYS Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r... MATTHEW LILLARD Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra... MATTHEW SCULLY As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ... MATTHEW MACFADYEN We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t... MATTHEW STEWART I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan... MATTHEW RHYS Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on n... MATTHEW ARNOLD I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts. MATTHEW ASHFORD The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ... MATTHEW QUICK Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine... MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Liv... MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love w... MATTHEW ARNOLD A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale. MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless... MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence. MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lay... MATTHEW PRIOR You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I kno... MATTHEW QUICK Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget... MATTHEW LEWIS We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power. MATTHEW BOULTON There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac... MATTHEW DICKS Dare to Differ MATTHEW GOLDFINGER Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ... MATTHEW SCULLY Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making... MATTHEW FOX In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. MATTHEW PRIOR And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. MATTHEW PRIOR Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S... MATTHEW PRIOR Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. MATTHEW PRIOR Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. MATTHEW PRIOR One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how... MATTHEW FOX Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? MATTHEW PRIOR With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden a... MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. MATTHEW PRIOR With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. MATTHEW ARNOLD 'Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly sti... MATTHEW ARNOLD Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. MATTHEW ARNOLD Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and... MATTHEW ARNOLD The ends must justify the means. MATTHEW PRIOR The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. MATTHEW ARNOLD Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work. MATTHEW FOX Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! MATTHEW ARNOLD That she's the worst driver in the history of drivers. If I know she's going somewhere, I stay home.... MATTHEW PERRY This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD Greatness is a spiritual condition. MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. MATTHEW ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. MATTHEW ARNOLD The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ... MATTHEW ARNOLD Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. MATTHEW GREEN Journalism is literature in a hurry. MATTHEW ARNOLD Or to some coffee-house I stray, For news, the manna of the day, And from the hipp MATTHEW GREEN The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile... MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ... MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening... MATTHEW ARNOLD Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His... MATTHEW ARNOLD Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had... MATTHEW ARNOLD Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. MATTHEW ARNOLD Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. MATTHEW ARNOLD Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight ... MATTHEW ARNOLD People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ... MATTHEW ARNOLD Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just oursel... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather t... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus... MATTHEW ARNOLD The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder pas... MATTHEW ARNOLD I never strove to rule the roast,
She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast. MATTHEW PRIOR Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, se... MATTHEW FOX At night astronomers agree. MATTHEW PRIOR I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face... MATTHEW ARNOLD Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye wi... MATTHEW ARNOLD Now fitted the halter, now travers'd the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to part. MATTHEW PRIOR Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful ... MATTHEW ARNOLD To err is human. MATTHEW PRIOR The end must justify the means. MATTHEW PRIOR I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Brave... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a l... MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die. MATTHEW ARNOLD God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-top... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
... MATTHEW ARNOLD On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Six years--six little years--six drops of time. MATTHEW ARNOLD They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live. MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly
the notion of perfection as culture... MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome. MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden an... MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly. MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
Th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world." MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th... MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prev... MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light. MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life.
- Matthew Prior, MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and ... MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say. MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know. MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole. MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties. MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
... MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ... MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an... MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ... MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam... MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h... MATTHEW DESMOND