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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
Anne Sexton
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
Tyson Gay
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The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
Issey Miyake
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You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it.
Tzachi Hanegbi
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I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
Tzipi Livni
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I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
Anne Sexton
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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.
Anne Sexton
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I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
U Thant
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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of my country, right or wrong.
U Thant
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.
Anne Sexton
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
Anne Sexton
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The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?
U Thant
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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
Anne Sexton
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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton
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I know him...of course.
Toni Gonzaga
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
Anne Sexton
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As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
U Thant
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There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.
George Lillo
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Waste begets self-will thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.
Confucius
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
Anne Sexton
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Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
U Thant
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I don't like to be disturbed at home I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
U Thant
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
U Thant
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