Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated - thrown aside - a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.
William Carlos Williams
Related Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be un... JODI PICOULT The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and t... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody ... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down ... STEPHEN RICHARDS They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H... GARY MICHIELS A man who has given up his fight against selfishness is already a defeated warrior of his life. ANUJ SOMANY The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be... MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar BIBLE if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Everyone in this life is defeated. But a man, if he be a man, is not defeated. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com... MUHAMMAD ALI Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com... MUHAMMAD ALI When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK Had he not trusted his instincts and went back to pick this man up, he (Boatman) might not have been... DAVID PECK When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivi... MARGERY ALLINGHAM I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and... JIM DALE Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and ... ERIC HOFFER He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his... WILLIAM HAZLITT I kind of got tripped up going up there, but I just turned and Chris beat his man. Chris made the pl... MATT HARYASZ The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful plac... JONATHAN BARNES He goes to the net hard when he gets in front. It's like he sees red, you know? He bears down and ma... MIKE CAMMALLERI Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. HENRY WARD BEECHER A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too f... ALBERT PIKE a man of deep convictions. He was a plain- spoken fellow who did his best for his state and for his ... PAUL WELLSTONE One outing his velocity will be up and he'll struggle with control and his changeup, but last outing... JACKIE MOORE One outing his velocity will be up and he'll struggle with control and his changeup, but last outing... JACKIE MOORE Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause HENRY WARD BEECHER And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of t... BIBLE Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, a... ROBERT BROWNING He caught up in a hurry. WILL OHMAN He told me to step up and make a big shot, then he hit me in the back of the head pretty hard. Carlo... LOREN STOKES Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
Answer a fool accordin... BIBLE My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how qu... JOE BIDEN Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wi... EUGENE ORMANDY Phil gives us size and experience back on the blue line, ... He's not afraid to mix it up, and can u... BOB FERGUSON The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. LORD KELVIN Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Child... E.B. WHITE He is slowing the game down instead of having to hurry up and do things. He's comfortable. He caught... SMOKE LAVAL Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.<... RICHARD MATHESON When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people MARK TWAIN It's going to be very tough. They've got (post player) Eric Williams down there, so we need somebody... ZABIAN DOWDELL Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. KOHTA HIRANO A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going throug... RAND PAUL I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a ... STUART CHASE When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make
up his mind to be a little thrash... THOMAS HUGHES In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is... JACQUES LACAN Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Certainly there were some evil, evil people in there, ... But they are casting a very wide net, and ... CYRUS KAR His magic is powerful, intoxicating. I'm a butterfly caught in his net, unable and unwilling to esca... E.L. JAMES A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so g... STEPHEN KING I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and ... SHERMAN HEMSLEY The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for '... AMIRI BARAKA I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I... DAVID HALLBERG Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The measure of a man is what he does with power. PLATO He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. TERTULLIAN He realized he was wrong in some of his actions at West Virginia, ... He's just a competitive guy an... FRANK BEAMER He?s a hard nosed player. He plays a great up and down game. It was a great shot on the first goal a... BOB HARTLEY Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will... JOHN HAWKINS I felt like this was the best I've thrown in a long time. I just got two balls up, and I got caught ... JASON VARGAS Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he want... CASSANDRA CLARE Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their des... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Assassinate me with your threatening words you may, intimidate me you cannot. A ballless man can onl... FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The Fisherman Piping
A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Stan... AESOP Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?... CASSANDRA CLARE It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN A life free of challenge will never make you strong & a person with fighting spirit. When faced with... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of th... JOHN TAULER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid..... RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. ... REBECCA HARDING DAVIS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger in... RALPH FIENNES A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make hi... IRVING BABBITT We'll be the safety net. If he falls through the federal net, we'll be there to pick him up. BOB MACY A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able... THOMAS HOBBES Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone SUZY KASSEM God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spok... A. W. TOZER Don't be afraid to kneel down.
Kneeling down is a powerful gesture of humility that even the Heavens... JOHN B. BEJO Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th... WINSTON CHURCHILL How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience w... ELBERT HUBBARD How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience w... ELBERT HUBBARD That ball in right field should've been caught. Up in the air that long, that ball has to be caught ... SEAN MARTIN A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ... G.K. CHESTERTON He's a lovable man. He opens up his heart and gives his heart to everyone. DAVID FOSTER If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact th... BILL COSBY Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable m... JERRY GARCIA A man is nothing without dreams. A man is called idiot while he dreams. Whatever he does, he'll be j... ASPER BLURRY There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to wri... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of... HARRY S TRUMAN
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CARLOS FUENTES The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. CARLOS FUENTES The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ... CARLOS FUENTES I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. CARLOS FUENTES Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who... CARLOS FUENTES Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000... CARLOS FUENTES The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo... CARLOS FUENTES Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and... CARLOS FUENTES What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what... CARLOS FUENTES The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac... CARLOS FUENTES I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. CARLOS FUENTES To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif... CARLOS CASTANEDA Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there! CARLOS CASTANEDA The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. CARLOS CASTANEDA A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and lau... CARLOS CASTANEDA We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe... CARLOS CASTANEDA The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historica... CARLOS CASTANEDA We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. CARLOS CASTANEDA Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this pat... CARLOS CASTANEDA In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps ba... CARLOS ALVAREZ Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989. CARLOS ALVAREZ In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer b... CARLOS ALVAREZ If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's ... CARLOS ALAZRAQUI I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. CARLOS ALAZRAQUI