Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
quote by Thomas Merton
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I Like It
I like,
Those moments of life you live...
Shared with me.
Free to abandon the maddening crowds,
Loud and chaotic.
With a misguided compassion.
And reacting as if robotic.
I like it,
When it is just you and I...
And nothing else between us comes.
To load upon our hugs and touches,
With distractions of any kind.
I like,
It.
Yes I do.
When the two of us can leave behind,
The unnecessary where it is.
Outside to be left.
As we keep what we have inside,
Close and loving.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Dawn
What is knowledge? What is wisdom?
My sight seeks a candle, with a flame,
And the eyes are finally better, it is
The candlelight of good shining quality.
One may be wise when a small number
Of people are listening and reacting,
But the light from anywhere is cast
With such a holiness that the candle is only slight.
Knowledge this day is relished, abducted
By the wise candlelight.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Enthusiastic Coach
Hoping and praying for your dreams to happen.
And nothing done you do inspires that to become true.
Because you are the one who claims,
If it wasn't for bad luck...
You wouldn't have none so you sing the blues.
Many like you find themselves,
Pulling out of quicksand.
And with no ropes.
Or with an enthusiastic coach,
Yelling from the sidelines...
'You must be on crack!
You're reacting like a dope! '
Those with faith...
Seem to do what they do.
And get things accomplished that way.
Yet some folks say they pray...
And have something to complain about,
EVERYDAY!
Many want to wine and dine,
And find they pay the piper!
While believing someone seen struggling,
Has it made.
Since no complaints are heard to come from them.
Nor is it believed,
God is behind these scenes assisting.
'Good luck comes to those born with intelligence! '
~What?
You must be the one cursed with bad luck...
And a life that's unfortunate! ? ~
'You are right!
How did you know that? '
~It is seen in your eyes as you carry that on your back! ~
Hoping and praying for your dreams to happen.
And nothing done you do inspires that to become true.
Because you are the one who claims,
If it wasn't for bad luck...
You wouldn't have none so you sing the blues.
Many like you find themselves,
Pulling out of quicksand.
And with no ropes.
Or with an enthusiastic coach,
Yelling from the sidelines...
'You must be on crack!
You're reacting like a dope! '
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
quote by Mark Davis
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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
quote by Mariel Hemingway
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Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.
quote by Jewel Kilcher
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Unconditional Love
What a man
you know it's a bright and shiny day
I want to say something to you
I love you just like Ja do
We know a place
where Ja's people can run free
a new kind of love
and we call it agape
Don't take too long to find
true love transcends all time
that non-reacting
song performed by by Donna Summer from The Donna Summer Anthology
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Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
quote by Steve Ballmer
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A chemical romance
Some sugar for my lips to sweeten our kiss
Some mint in my tongue to add
some herb or spice in French delights
A little salt and pepper on my cheek,
you lick me there sometimes
We close our eyes
From our million cells we generate and separate
The necessary substances
Some estrogens from you
Some androgens from me
Some digestive juices
some Adrenalines in all corners
Of our bodily organs
Needed for ecstasy and
Multiple orgasms
Do not dream, do not inject
Something like love
something Like affection,
do not involve The elements of the heart
This is just plain mixing of chemicals
Reacting, exploding in so short a time
We open our eyes; we do not ask our names
We are strangers in this chemical romance
It is over in a few minutes and then we
Leave and close gently the door behind us.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Fury Of Hating Eyes
I would like to bury
all the hating eyes
under the sand somewhere off
the North Atlantic and suffocate
them with the awful sand
and put all their colors to sleep
in that soft smother.
Take the brown eyes of my father,
those gun shots, those mean muds.
Bury them.
Take the blue eyes of my mother,
naked as the sea,
waiting to pull you down
where there is no air, no God.
Bury them.
Take the black eyes of my love,
coal eyes like a cruel hog,
wanting to whip you and laugh.
Bury them.
Take the hating eyes of martyrs,
presidents, bus collectors,
bank managers, soldiers.
Bury them.
Take my eyes, half blind
and falling into the air.
Bury them.
Take your eyes.
I come to the center,
where a shark looks up at death
and thinks of my heart
and squeeze it like a doughnut.
They'd like to take my eyes
and poke a hatpin through
their pupils. Not just to bury
but to stab. As for your eyes,
I fold up in front of them
in a baby ball and you send
them to the State Asylum.
Look! Look! Both those
mice are watching you
from behind the kind bars.
poem by Anne Sexton
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A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
quote by Michael Mann
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I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.
quote by Julia Stiles
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For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
quote by Jena Malone
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Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
quote by Kirk Hammett
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Stepping Out In Style
She again doing it to me,
styling to be successful,
want's It bad enough,
understand when she calls,
nicest voice every heard,
cause you have her heart at best,
working to keep going,
this life so stressful,
reacting the story,
new hairstyle not to cut,
you out but job interview,
forget the wrong,
to turn It right,
If you knew her,
ever the best she flawless,
never was she make believe,
but have you believe,
you wasn't good enough,
her mind told her,
not to ever mess up,
stepping out in style.
poem by Tommy Laster
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
quote by Gavin Bryars
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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
quote by Jim Jarmusch
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Ash
I would love to play with that fire in your eyes
But sadly my hopes are your own demise
Because I kissed that dearly possessive vampire
I would tell you to regret the day you call me a liar
Those lips, they were oh so distracting
Couldn't help my body from reacting
Broken skin, clear and starved for attention
Life plays out like a bloody movie convention
Beastly movements, contorted smile
Seems there is only one in denial
And I can tell you now that one isn't me
Because I see my life so much more free
So tell me know little mortal man
Just how you're going to say you can
Little claws at which you laughed and smirked
Now strip your bones to discarded ash and dirt
You held your tongue though, I'll give you that
As I played with your life, like a unsatisfied cat
But now it seems you weren't up to my type of fun
You should have listened when I told you to run, little rabbit run
poem by Rebecca Pepper
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When I started out in independent films in the early 70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
quote by Sissy Spacek
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First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
quote by Neil LaBute
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