When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.
Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.
Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption. ' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
Well, as I got older and started using makeup, I wanted to use something lightweight under my makeup that wouldn't clog my pores. So I get up in the morning, brush my teeth, wash my face, and do my whole routine. Sunscreen is the first thing I put on before I put on my makeup.
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine. "
Government is instituted for those who live under it.
Reaching out to rescue one another under ANY condition is an eternal measure of love.