Far from gay cities and the ways of men.


Robert Pollok

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Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS")
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and on...
JANE JACOBS
This investigation graphically proves the reach and depth of the internationally directed cocaine tr...
DONNIE MARSHALL
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE
Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
JOHN MILTON
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
ARISTOPHANES
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities l...
ARISTOPHANES
Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
BEN AFFLECK
Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Yet, when the men get infected, which so happens in the cities, and they go back to the rural areas ...
STEPHEN LEWIS
All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities t...
JACK LONDON
Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far cou...
BIBLE
['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia
ERIC C. WAT
This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distance...
ED MURPHY
What was it with gay men and art photos of nude male torsos?
DAVID PRATT
One of the great things about having Madonna in the movie is that most gay men probably would want t...
RUPERT EVERETT
Everybody practicing unsafe, high-risk sex, should be excluded from donating blood, and a special em...
LEON WESSELS
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
ROBERT POLLOK
With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
ROBERT POLLOK
Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord! Star of Eternity! The only star By which the ...
ROBERT POLLOK
He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.
ROBERT POLLOK
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
ROBERT POLLOK
Virtue alone is happiness below.
ROBERT POLLOK
'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
ROBERT POLLOK
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ROBERT POLLOK
Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.
ROBERT POLLOK
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
ROBERT POLLOK
Get wealth and power, if possible by grace, If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
ROBERT POLLOK
Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.
ROBERT POLLOK
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved, Where still so much is said; One half will never be beli...
ROBERT POLLOK
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
ROBERT POLLOK
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
ROBERT POLLOK
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
ROBERT POLLOK
And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
ROBERT POLLOK
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
ROBERT POLLOK
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
ROBERT POLLOK
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
ROBERT POLLOK
'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
ROBERT POLLOK
Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.
ROBERT POLLOK
On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtru...
ROBERT POLLOK
He sat among his bags, and, with a look Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor Away un...
ROBERT POLLOK
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where t...
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men
JOHN MILTON
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
DAN STEVENS
I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C.
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gott...
KESHA
A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are ...
CHARLES DANCE
Hell to ships, hell to men, hell to cities - of Helen of Troy
AESCHYLUS
Fitz’s human clothes are a huge snoozefest. Check out what Dex and I found in Alvar’s closet!”...
SHANNON MESSENGER
Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of frie...
DANI ALEXANDER
Freedom and equality is one side. But a doubt arises about the nature and structure of the human gen...
DEVASKI
Don't look at how far men has gone ahead of you, look at how far God has distanced himself from you.
THE INSPIRATIONIST
We market to people that are forward thinking and like the energy of the urban lifestyle. We find in...
DAN DANIEL
I've never been with men, ever. . . I'm gay-blooded.
TAMMY LYNN MICHEALS
Young gay and bisexual men are at the highest risk for HIV in this country.
HELENE GAYLE
Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
MARK TWAIN
From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck ...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON
Unless you get a critical mass of bishops and religious superiors who say, Now we can't admit any ga...
JAMES BRETZKE
It's a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious order...
JAMES MARTIN
It's a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious order...
JAMES MARTIN
You know,” Flynn said, pausing to look over the brim of the glasses at him, “when you start shou...
SARAH MADISON
Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
ZACH BRAFF
I’m scared to fall asleep. I don’t want to see it...
REBECCA YBARRA
It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents...
JUDY CARTER
I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
CHER
Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS
There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS
I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS
The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Ga...
BEN SHAPIRO
Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he ha...
CESAR ROMERO
Robert had an excellent game, and he's much improved from the spring.
LANCE MARTIN
Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA
Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-fi...
LEA DELARIA
Sophie Foster was going home.
SHANNON MESSENGER
Take care of my moonlark.
SHANNON MESSENGER
Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.
ROBERT BEATTY
You feel like you're a ways from campus but you're not too far. You can always see the (football) st...
JEFF PIGG
The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say tha...
CHRYSIPPUS
Cities are like a beehive in a lot of ways and there's a hum to the city. You can tell what's happen...
ANTHONY WILLIAMS
In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
ROMAN PAYNE
She was Daddy's good little girl. That was of that era. She's not ditzy. She's very intelligent. And...
ANNE FRANCIS
Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of look...
LAUREN GROFF
You can get people interested and involved in ways far beyond the capabilities of normal TV.
JOSH CINCINNATI
Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrat...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and...
DAVID A. CLARKE, JR.
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome ...
AUDREY MEADOWS
Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other me...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
BILLY WEST
Our mission is to spread the word on AIDS among gay men, a topic that has been hiding in the closet ...
XIAO DONG
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in...
JOHN RUSKIN
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Men's lives are short .
The hard man and his cruelties will be
Cursed behind his back and ...
ROBERT FITZGERALD
The highlights from the past have been our always entertaining and educational keynote speakers whic...
ANA GUERRIERO
The highlights from the past have been our always entertaining and educational keynote speakers – w...
ANA GUERRIERO
As far as cities go, Havana is a festering treasure chest, a primary color.
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER
We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON
The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST
What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST
The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES
For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK