“See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.”
Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
On ascending the platform to his execution, as quoted in History of England (1856-1870) by James Anthony Froude
Source: Feast of Fools
“See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.”
Thomas More (1478–1535) English Renaissance humanist
On ascending the platform to his execution, as quoted in History of England (1856-1870) by James Anthony Froude
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Speechless
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)
“Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"First We Take Manhattan" (1986)
I'm Your Man (1988)
Context: Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
Lucian (120) ancient Greek writer
"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.
“It blew me wide open. It shifted me up into what I call the inter-dimensional mind.”
James Gilliland (1952) American academic and author
James describing his near-death experience.
Source: [Bures, Frank, Aliens, Anomalies, and Absurbity at Mt. Adams, The Portland Mercury, September 2001, http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=25334&category=34029, 2007-03-01]
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 239.
Michelle Branch (1983) American singer-songwriter and guitarist
" Love Me Like That http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michellebranch/lovemelikethat.html" <br class="br">2000s, Hotel Paper (2003)
“One cuts and chooses and shifts and pastes, and sometimes tears off and begins again.”
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
Source: 1940s, Beyond the Aesthetics' (1946), p. 15
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. ”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church