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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.


William Wycherley

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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny...
ISAAC MARION Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever.
KHADIJA RUPA So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
PABLO NERUDA Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
RALPH MARSTON You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...
HEINRICH HEINE Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and...
HEINRICH HEINE Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...
HEINRICH HEINE England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death...
WILLIAM BLAKE Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nigh...
ASHLY LORENZANA The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ...
J. AUGUST STRINDBERG The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find...
JACKIE MORSE KESSLER When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger...
CAREW PAPRITZ Only the bravest can sit quietly, close their eyes and look inward where they just might meet their ...
CRISTABEL MICHAELS Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT At Night

Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
Sleep, "Close your eyes til...
SARA TEASDALE I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in whic...
MARCEL PROUST You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the t...
JOHNNY DEPP Revenge brings life's illnesses only forgiveness can heal.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For the gods know I
speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My love,
we can close our eyes
but we cannot stop the sunrise.
KAMAND KOJOURI The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition a...
ELBERT HUBBARD But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the...
PIETRO ARETINO You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the...
JAVAN You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the...
TABITHA SUZUMA Eat whatever one gets and appease the hunger; and sleep wherever one finds shelter. Do not store foo...
ATHARVA VEDA Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't e...
CORETTA SCOTT KING Sleep - Death without dying - living, but not life.
EDWIN ARNOLD An open-minded person sees life without boundaries, whereas a close-minded person can only see what�...
KAORU SHINMON We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I close my eyes
and I can see a better day.
I close my eyes
and pray
JUSTIN BIEBER He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welco...
WILLIAM GOLDING Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my ...
PHILIP DOW Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at...
YANN MARTEL Strangers are friends whom we yet to meet and our foes are nobody but strangers.
VIKRANT PARSAI Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all qui...
MELODY CARLSON He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. ...
RICCARDO BRUNI Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I'm a roller coaster that only foes up.
- THE FAULT IN OUR STARS JOHN GREEN There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for...
HAMZA YUSUF Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying," Snow said. "It can make up for evil done to y...
BILL WILLINGHAM The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves
WILLIAM PENN This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of ...
ILONA ANDREWS When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Many people are weakened by hunger. They can no longer walk long distances to fetch water. They ofte...
IRIS KREBBER Who do your trust when the world is close to dust? Is it your friend or foes now a day’s who knows...
MARK IBRAHIM You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bu...
CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautif...
YANN MARTEL You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
MARGARET ATWOOD I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
MAHALIA JACKSON Sleep: the stepchild of Death.
NANCY A. COLLINS Hunger is not only the best cook, but also the best physician.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you close your eyes, no lighthouse can help you!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We are against the death penalty not only in word, but really against the death penalty.
WOLFGANG BENEDEK We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisin...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Only three things can lightens up a victims feeling, JUSTICE, REVENGE or FORGIVENESS.
BRADLEY B. DALINA My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
JAZZ FEYLYNN God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all h...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at...
YANN MARTEL You can discover the true love of your wife only in the days of hunger.
VIKRANT PARSAI Eyes are given only to those who can not see with their hearts.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E.M. FORSTER The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTER Sleep is death without the consequence.
DIANA QUINN Sleep is death without the responsibility.
FRAN LEBOWITZ I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will ...
BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth ke...
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SIR WILLIAM WATSON His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate. My ...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
ANN BRASHARES Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Are you going to ignore that? You just can't close your eyes.
DANIEL HEMPEY Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep
MOHAMMED Eating only the meal called revenge can never satisfy you,until the spice called forgiveness is adde...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They don't have to look the animals in the eyes when they have to be put to sleep.
LANA PLANISEK Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.
CAROLYN MURPHY Sometimes, I think that I love life so much, that I make death jealous...
LIONEL SUGGS No one can tell more about you if you close your eyes.
VIKRANT PARSAI The extension form of sleep is death.
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED The objective is to provide an analog close to space where the consequences are really life and deat...
MARC REAGAN We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The people around a famous person are merely jealous of his popularity; however in case of an overly...
ANUJ SOMANY Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your e...
SUE MONK KIDD You can't tell up close (there are eyes), and that's the beauty.
CATE ERVIN Sleep simply means,to close the conscious mind from Life's realities.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You will close your eyes. And listen carefully . . . . You must learn to listen carefully when peopl...
CéLESTE ALBARET In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, b...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL They are on a hunger strike because they want a hearing in court with a lawyer of their own. They ar...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE