When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
