Actual Bodily Harm

Famous quotes containing the words actual, bodily and/or harm:

    “The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    “At stroke of midnight soul cannot endure
    A bodily or mental furniture.
    What can she take until her Master give!
    Where can she look until He make the show!
    What can she know until He bid her know!
    How can she live till in her blood He live!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)