Lips Quotes - page 2

A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own. View quote
Junot Diaz
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. View quote
Judith Guest
Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above the sacred whisper of the pines, Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines, Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs. View quote
Jean Toomer
Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. View quote
Harry Houdini
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. View quote
Thomas Hardy
How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer... View quote
Harry J. Anslinger
And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much. View quote
Georg Büchner
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. (Robert Jordan)
The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. View quote
W. H. Auden
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn! View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam
I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Do not be jealous of your sister. Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Red lips are not so red; As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. View quote
Wilfred Owen
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. View quote
David Gemmell
Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim's place, and now it seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. (Suzanne Collins)
Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers. View quote
Dinah Craik
I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, "Read my lips: no new taxes." View quote
George H. W. Bush
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears. View quote
Pete Seeger