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all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction
I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a 'movie star' would be a very dangerous place.
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
I have seven different jewels for my piercing. Every day I wear a different one, according to the clothes I am wearing.
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.
Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.
the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.
The business aspect is more controlled than the culture, which allowed MCs to come in and talk about things like cars and jewels.
Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.
I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.
A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.
The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point.
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.
From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.
Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.