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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said, 'Pan is dead great Pan is dead Pan, Pan is dead'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
Aphra Behn
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
Betty Friedan
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.
Oliver Goldsmith
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Carol Ann Duffy
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
Ben Hecht
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Don DeLillo
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
Don DeLillo
We can't save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
David Brin
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
David Brin
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.
Julian Assange
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds.
Lewis Carroll
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
William Butler Yeats
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
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