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Tag Name "Trembles" (41)

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In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.
Marya Hornbacher
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
Philip James Bailey
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When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
R. A. Torrey
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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
Rita Dove
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes
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When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
Rumi
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick
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The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
Susanna Clarke
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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce
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When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.
Thomas Sankara
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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
Bret Harte
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High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
Vanna Bonta
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The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
William Butler Yeats
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What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
Freya Stark
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A tear that trembles for a little while Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world Wavers within its circle like a dream, Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
Henry Van Dyke
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One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.
Hjalmar Söderberg
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When one heart moves the whole web trembles.
Mark Salzman
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You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
Mark Twain
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Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another the earth moans with metaphors.
Osip Mandelstam
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When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
Publilius Syrus
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Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
Richard Cecil
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