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John Donne

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me...
JULIET MARILLIER Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
JOHN DONNE I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
CESAR ROMERO They're above the tracks and we're below the tracks.
AL GREEN The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep be...
LAO-TSE They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
KURT COBAIN My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
HANK WILLIAMS JR. Green calm below, blue quietness above.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I'm right below above average intelligence.
KRIS HUEN I'm right above below average intelligence.
KRIS HUEN Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE Doubt is not below knowledge but above it
ALAIN LESAGE Doubt is not below knowledge but above it
ALAIN RENE LESAGE There are some employee who will go above and beyond the call of duty. Mr. John was one of them.
CYNTHIA GREEN Where are you getting these documents? Whose hands are behind them?
BARZAN IBRAHIM We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE No man is above the law, and no man is below it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
WALTER WINCHELL Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
AMEEN RIHANI If the number is 50,000 above or below, that's a variation where you'll see a reaction. If it's belo...
HANS OLSEN Working with your people is so much easier than pushing them from behind, or threatening them from a...
JOHNNY WALKER We're talking about the difference between a little below and a little above, but the number is cons...
GERALD COHEN Everybody thinks they're above average. Obviously not everybody can be above average. Somebody has t...
DAVID DUNNING Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
JOHN STEINBECK Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread an...
JOHN DONNE Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts
BENITO MUSSOLINI The two seasons; deepest winter from above and nascent spring from below, created a juxtaposition th...
FELIX LONG In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
ASA GRAY Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
ROBERT FROST I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. I love the Beatles and especially John Lennon. My...
JAMES ANDREWS It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Sure there is, between Martin and John.
ALLISON JANNEY Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
NOAM CHOMSKY They broke the bone in two places, once below the knee and once above the ankle.
CHRIS HANSON Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a te...
GEORGE ELIOT It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below
ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA We give what we are above,but we hoard what we are below.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
BHAGAVAD GITA You have an entirely different industry with oil below $50 a barrel and with oil above $60.
VAUGHN CORDLE From far below mounted the clink and tinkle of distant masonry work, and a sudden train passed betwe...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I let my emotions get above the whole situation. I shouldn't have.
ARNAUD DAHI I fell back into my favorite chair and tucked my hands between my knees to stop them from shaking. I...
TESS OLIVER When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He thanked them for their service to our country. And wanted to let them know ... that the American ...
ALLEN ABNEY He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and t...
ALLEN ABNEY I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. FLAY Growth must come from below. Growth coming from above will see a lot of fluctuations,
ARUN KUMAR The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningf...
DAVE MCCLURE We have very good interest to sell euros above $1.1929 and very good interest to buy euros below $1....
GREG SALVAGGIO They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.
CASSANDRA CLARE People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
LUCINDA WILLIAMS I'll just keep that confidential between me and them and let it happen from there.
DEE WEBB Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in ...
JOHN DONNE He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this worl...
AVIJEET DAS Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and l...
GRIGORIS DEOUDIS That's true if the company, the plan, has a premium that's at or below the average. If it's above th...
DAVID HOLDEN And all those temperatures are taken from about five feet above the ground. Five feet below the grou...
DOUG MOHLER That is about average for a recovery. It's above the recovery we saw in the early '90s, but signific...
GREGORY MANKIW The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separatel...
THOMAS PAINE Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear, "I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius.
SARAH J. MAAS Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
WALTER SCOTT Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above, For love is heaven ...
UNKNOWN Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target.
KENNETH WILLIAMS They would require a licence and permit and the like,
UJJAL DOSANJH Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcol...
DR. JOHN Many hands make light work. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD I hold my dreams in my hands and tirelessly wear them in my heart.
LEAH DANCEL In many ways, it's like splitting hairs between the gold and silver medalists when the bronze medali...
BOB AUSTRIAN Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
ALEXANDER POPE The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
VINCENT CASSEL Yahoo's revenue in the quarter was just below consensus, with profitability lagging further behind.
HEATH TERRY So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to g...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resen...
AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO One of the cardinal rules of office dating is, 'never date a direct report', meaning both those abov...
JULIANNE BALMAIN For them to tie our hands behind our backs and prevent us from participating in this scientific fron...
JOHN WILEY I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
CAROL ANN DUFFY The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be...
OWEN PATERSON Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let'...
PHIL BREDESEN Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment o...
JOHN DONNE My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN It just goes back to let everybody else worry about the Rocket. Let him take the show, and hopefully...
A.J. BURNETT One of the women had her hands and legs tied behind her back and the others had only their hands tie...
BRENDA KGAFELA Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
CLAUDE CHABROL We had it in the palm of our hands, and we let it slip away. It's heartbreaking, but there is an ups...
ANTOINE BLUNT After all my crying and yelling, they let me see him behind the glass window for five minutes.
ASHLEY PAINTER I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling f...
MOHSIN HAMID I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally...
RUPERT FRIEND TODD:
The history of the world, my love --
LOVETT:
Save a lot of graves,
Do a lo...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM They kept getting the ball on the wing and dumping it inside, and we weren't playing our defense. We...
ANDRE MIDGETT 'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from ab...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB

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...
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But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
JOHN DONNE Annunciation

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all every...
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JOHN DONNE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
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Make of so noble individual parts
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But yet the body is his book.
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Before, behind, between, above, below.
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For loving, and for saying so.
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She gives the best light to his sphere;
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JOHN DONNE For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
JOHN DONNE like gold to airy thinness beat
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JOHN DONNE Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
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JOHN DONNE She, and comparisons are odious.
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JOHN DONNE By our first strange and fatal interview.
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JOHN DONNE When my grave is broke up again / Some second guest to entertain.
JOHN DONNE ...but come bad chance
And wee joyne to it our strength
And wee teach it art and length JOHN DONNE My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
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ELENA DELLE DONNE It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emo...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and a...
ELENA DELLE DONNE My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER