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«The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.»
Author: Lester B. Pearson
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
giants, grim, precocious, prepare for, pygmies, Pygmy, retard, retarded, retarding
«You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.»
Author: Robert Alton Harris
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
dances, Dances With, grim, grim reaper, reaper, reapers, sweeper, sweepers, The Grim Reaper
«To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.»
Author: Tom C. Clark
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
build up, conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, farcical, grim, Grimm, straw, straw man, The Negative, whimsical
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dramatic, dramatic performance, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, finality, followers, frightfulness, gesture, grandiose, grim, lighthearted, make-believe, mask, participating, selves, solemn, spectacle, staged, tasks, theatrical, theatricals, unreal
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, bringing, bringing up, bring off, coffin, coffins, damp, damps, deliberately, drizzly, funeral, grim, hand to mouth, hats, high hand, high sea, high time, involuntarily, knocking, knockings, knock off, moral principle, November, pausing, prevent, rear, rearing, rears, stepping, upper, uppers, upper hand, warehouse, warehouses
«VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? --Hannibal Hunsiker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
awe-inspiring, breech, breeches, cackle, cackles, cackling, cap, capped, caps, chap, chaps, clamorous, coat, drum, drum major, gorgeous, grandly, grim, Hannibal, hen, hens, imperiously, inspiring, loudest, professing, resolute, The Eggs, towering, tribute, worthless
«We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
chimneys, distrustfully, grim, oaken, panel, paneling, portraits
«Think of the Lord! No one knows this secret, of when the Messenger of Death will seize you and take you away. All your weeping and wailing then is false. In an instant, you become a stranger. You obtain exactly what you have longed for. Says Nanak, in the fourth watch of the night, O mortal, the Grim Reaper has harvested your field.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
grim, grim reaper, harvested, longed-for, longed, reaper, reapers, The Grim Reaper, wailing
