Detains Quotes & Sayings

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were. — Mason Cooley

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together. — Shaquille O'Neal

AN EMPTY GARLIC

"You miss the garden,
because you want a small fig from a random tree.
You don't meet the beautiful woman. You're joking with an old crone.
It makes me want to cry how she detains you,
stinking mouthed, with a hundred talons,
putting her head over the roof edge to call down,
tasteless fig, fold over fold, empty
as dry-rotten garlic.

She has you tight by the belt,
even though there's no flower and no milk inside her body.

Death will open your eyes
to what her face is: leather spine
of a black lizard. No more advice.

Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love. — Jalaluddin Rumi

It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage. — Samuel Marsden

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for. — Christopher Paolini

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another. — Donna Lynn Hope

Mercury dropped the purple car and shot up into the air, whistling like a shooting star. The woman in the car next to me looked up at me like I was a superhero. I smiled at her and jumped down, trying to be smooth. I landed wrong and went sliding on my face. I glanced back at her. She appeared less impressed than before. — Obert Skye

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel De Montaigne

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it. — Chris Webber

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. — Isaac Watts

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion. — Isaac Newton

Religion is opium for the masses — Nikos Kazantzakis

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco. — Eva Herzigova

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime. — Annie Jacobsen

Far from the hateful cause of all his woes. Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan'd in Philacus' chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack'd his labouring mind! — Homer

Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of literature. They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to fulfill, and obliged to write on subjects which they do not understand. Every publication is a new period of time, from which some increase or declension of fame is to be reckoned. The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book. — Samuel Johnson

When love comes first, actions will follow. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

We will die, but art will remain. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sidney remembered how strikingly original the poem was. For George Herbert, the time we spend on earth is not all too brief and transient but too long: because it detains human beings from a life outside time and with God. — James Runcie