(104 quotes found)
“Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines”
Claude McKay
“The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late”
Daniel Defoe
“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”
John Major
“There are all kinds of ways to forestall graduation. Taking a term off, getting suspended, not completing courses, all of these are valid.”
Zonker Harris
“I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections,”
Abdoulaye Wade
“Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor
“Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.”
Clifford Geertz
“Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.”
T.S. Eliot
“They're suspended on a system of ropes, so catch the waste before it reaches the seabed. As we harvest them, they're tested to see how much of the waste nutrients they're absorbing. The seaweed is there to absorb dissolved nutrients and the shellfish to dispose of particles.”
Angus MacMillan
“(Two years) ago the program sort of drove into some real dark days as Nigeria suspended immunization in parts of the north.”
Bruce Aylward
