If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)
The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.
From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.
God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.
The thing I've learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it's generally the 'talking heads' that give us trouble.
No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?
In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out. . . even more popular than before because bust their heads was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against the stones. " Don't read that to me on Sunday morning and say "This is the word of the Lord. " It's like that crazy man down in Alabama who wanted to put the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.
Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.
That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.
We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.