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JOHN DONNE E.M. Ashford: And death shall be no more" comma "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a com...
MARGARET EBSON Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vestur...
BIBLE Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
FRANCESCO PETRARCA And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into p...
BIBLE To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to ev...
BIBLE For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
BIBLE Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
BIBLE For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:...
BIBLE But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
BIBLE Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
BIBLE Confront Thy Fear Once, And Thou Shalt Be Afraid No More.
SAHIL KARANJE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, thos...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
JOHN DONNE Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
THE BIBLE Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou s...
BIBLE And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass ove...
BIBLE We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ...
THOMAS PAINE No one should be worried that if you're drinking more soda or eating more muffins you're going to di...
ANDREW OLAHARSKI And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that ...
BIBLE Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
BRANCH RICKEY Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.
YI SUN-SIN Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.
BIBLE And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him o...
BIBLE Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on ...
BIBLE Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not ...
BIBLE Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
DYLAN THOMAS Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
DYLAN THOMAS Beginning a short series on prayer: Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If th...
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise! Arise, Riders of Theoden! Spears shall be shaken,swords shall be...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased';...
JULIAN OF NORWICH He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased';...
JULIAN OF NORWICH He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou ...
BIBLE And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
BIBLE But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou e...
ANONYMOUS They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the m...
BIBLE Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upo...
BIBLE For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, ...
BIBLE In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, ...
BIBLE And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what t...
BIBLE England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death...
WILLIAM BLAKE Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the...
BIBLE Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bys...
YEHUDA BAUER Be thou faithful unto death.
BIBLE O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not ...
BIBLE Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee - for whither thou goest, I wil...
CASSANDRA CLARE If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the hous...
BIBLE Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, th...
JULIANA OF NORWICH But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that tho...
STEPHENIE MEYER If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
BIBLE We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Lo...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried: CASSANDRA CLARE Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
FIDEL CASTRO Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.
JAMES MACPHERSON The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ...
BIBLE Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the f...
BIBLE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Though natural men, who have induced secondary an...
JOHN DONNE Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.
WALTER SCOTT Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
BIBLE For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not ...
BIBLE For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee...
BIBLE Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystande...
KEN WYTSMA How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar mos...
BIBLE Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward...
MELINA MARCHETTA Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: / Knowing that Christ be...
BIBLE Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: / He ...
BIBLE Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark,...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to l...
HEINRICH SUSO When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for t...
BIBLE To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow...
BIBLE When we die, death becomes our new life, and life becomes our old death.
JIM GENOVESE Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
MAHATMA GANDHI Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
MOHANDAS GANDHI And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
BIBLE Rut, routine, robotic. These are the three R's of adult-hood. Wake up, eat, go to work, eat, work mo...
CRAIG R. KEY But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
BIBLE Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from w...
P. J. O'ROURKE Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
WALTER SCOTT Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
SIR WALTER SCOTT Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
JOHN STEINBECK Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round a...
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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JOHN DONNE Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and...
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JOHN DONNE But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
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JOHN DONNE He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no...
JOHN DONNE Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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JOHN DONNE I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare...
JOHN DONNE As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends...
JOHN DONNE When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
JOHN DONNE As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
JOHN DONNE At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conver...
JOHN DONNE Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is ...
JOHN DONNE All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of t...
JOHN DONNE Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE Whenever any affliction assails me, I have the keys of my prison in mine own hand, and no remedy pre...
JOHN DONNE Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write three...
JOHN DONNE To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
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JOHN DONNE Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, ex...
JOHN DONNE Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
JOHN DONNE Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste w...
JOHN DONNE SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lover...
JOHN DONNE Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they conten...
JOHN DONNE When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in ...
JOHN DONNE Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of t...
JOHN DONNE Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
...
JOHN DONNE I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be ...
JOHN DONNE Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
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JOHN DONNE No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a c...
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
JOHN DONNE Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
JOHN DONNE I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
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JOHN DONNE To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
JOHN DONNE Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
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JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
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JOHN DONNE Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
JOHN DONNE Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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JOHN DONNE Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must ...
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JOHN DONNE Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
JOHN DONNE More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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JOHN DONNE The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can
JOHN DONNE No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

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JOHN DONNE Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
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...
JOHN DONNE And Jacob came clothed in vile harsh attire, But to supplant, and with gainful intent; God clothed H...
JOHN DONNE Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
JOHN DONNE I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost
Who died before the god of Love was born.
JOHN DONNE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where...
JOHN DONNE Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs...
JOHN DONNE This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
Make of so noble individual parts
On...
JOHN DONNE If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
JOHN DONNE True and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years an...
JOHN DONNE Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
JOHN DONNE My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, JOHN DONNE The Good-Morrow

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? We...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so.
JOHN DONNE Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to me...
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
JOHN DONNE Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She gives the best light to his sphere;
Or each ...
JOHN DONNE A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,
Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
JOHN DONNE No man is an island, entire of itself.
JOHN DONNE Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book
JOHN DONNE Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
JOHN DONNE No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if...
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know, for loving and saying so.
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JOHN DONNE As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and ...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, ...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our...
JOHN DONNE This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so t...
JOHN DONNE Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that the...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday...
JOHN DONNE Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, Fi...
JOHN DONNE He that asks me what heaven is, means not to hear me, but to silence me; He knows I cannot tell him....
JOHN DONNE Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations o...
JOHN DONNE Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 Our critical day is not the very day of our deat...
JOHN DONNE Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179 That earth and that heaven, which spent God...
JOHN DONNE Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Though natural men, who have induced secondary an...
JOHN DONNE Tribulation is treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it, except we...
JOHN DONNE All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death
JOHN DONNE This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile.
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JOHN DONNE Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee
JOHN DONNE As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery
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JOHN DONNE But O alas, so long, so far / Our bodies why do we forbear? / They're ours, though they're not we, w...
JOHN DONNE There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whith...
JOHN DONNE Licence my roving hands, and let them goBefore, behind, between, above, below.
JOHN DONNE I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which...
JOHN DONNE No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
JOHN DONNE Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know fo...
JOHN DONNE All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of t...
JOHN DONNE Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one that goes to sea for nothin...
JOHN DONNE Only our love hath no decay; this, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, running it never runs from us aw...
JOHN DONNE If our two loves be one, or, thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.
JOHN DONNE Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE Come live with me, and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crysta...
JOHN DONNE Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
JOHN DONNE But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
JOHN DONNE Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy...
JOHN DONNE Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
JOHN DONNE The day breaks not, it is my heart.
JOHN DONNE Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant - the only harmless great thing.
JOHN DONNE Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
JOHN DONNE Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
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
JOHN DONNE Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For ...
JOHN DONNE Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
JOHN DONNE And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
JOHN DONNE So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn th...
JOHN DONNE Spit in my face you Jews, and pierce my side.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity
JOHN DONNE Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know fo...
JOHN DONNE When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / A...
JOHN DONNE On a round ball / A workman that hath copies by, can lay / An Europe, Africa and an Asia, / And quic...
JOHN DONNE That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
JOHN DONNE She, and comparisons are odious.
JOHN DONNE I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
JOHN DONNE So, if I dream I have you, I have you, / For all our joys are but fantastical.
JOHN DONNE Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm / Nor question much / That subtle wreath of hair, which cro...
JOHN DONNE By our first strange and fatal interview.
JOHN DONNE Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike that none...
JOHN DONNE I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
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.
JOHN DONNE For, thus friends absent speak.
JOHN DONNE Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
JOHN DONNE Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JOHN DONNE My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...
DR. JOHN DONNE No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE I have just got a new theory of eternity.
DR. JOHN DONNE If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time,...
DR. JOHN DONNE He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it,...
DR. JOHN DONNE We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than fak...
ELENA DELLE DONNE Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything fr...
ELENA DELLE DONNE As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real c...
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