Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
Every relationship is a gift exchange.
My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.
And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.
Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhereanywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.
It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.
Never do anything for another with the expectation of gratitude. The expectation itself turns the gift into an exchange and suggests a debt is owed you.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.