(15 quotes found)
“Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.”
Walter Benjamin
“A few other little things; some in sprung rhythm, with various other experiments.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.”
Bible
“The rates certainly triggered the disputes. The rates were written into the contract and it's not something we sprung on Bolivia.”
Jonathan Marshall
“And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: / But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.”
“You either need to score or get out of bounds quick, and some guys up front sprung him and did a nice job.”
John McCormick
“The walks just kind of sprung it loose.”
Jeff Freeman
“There is an advantage to being 5-foot-7. I don't think they saw me until I sprung loose.”
Lee Marks
“And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.”
“But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.”
