His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

`` I mean '', I went on ruthlessly, `` when he's not talking about you or himself or the wonders of love, is he interesting??

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

A fellow came up to me, a Senator, I don't have to tell you his name, and he told me, ' I love the President like a brother, but God damn it, he's crucifying me.

The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.

But once I was alone again, driving to the hospital, the heaviness returned.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

The segment would always open up spoofing Burma-Shave road signs as some of the Hee-Haw cast were seen piled on a truck driving down the road to Slim's Bar-B-Q whose guests often complained about the food to which Slim would counter with something like " I may not have prime meat at this picnic but I do have prime entertainment ..." and then he'd bring out the entertainment.

Another approach, e. g. Computervision's Interact I, involved attaching ball-point pens to drafting pantographs and driving the machines with motors controlled by the computer.

Alfonso I ( king from 739-757 ) rallied Galician support when driving the Moorish army out of Galicia and an area of that was to become Leon.

I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry.

A running joke in these stories is that they often feature a car accident in which one of the characters is run down — in every case, the same man is driving the car, and always responds with the same line: " Sorry mate, I didn't see him / her !".

Within days of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Perutz wrote to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, appealing to him not to respond with military force: " I am alarmed by the American cries for vengeance and concerned that President Bush's retaliation will lead to the death of thousands more innocent people, driving us into a world of escalating terror and counter-terror.

For a lightly damped linear oscillator with a resonance frequency Ω, the intensity of oscillations I when the system is driven with a driving frequency ω is typically approximated by a formula that is symmetric about the resonance frequency:

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople was the driving force behind this doctrine, with the full blessing of the Emperor Heraclius.

Childe was fond of cars and driving them, writing a letter in 1931 in which he stated that " I love driving ( when I'm the chaffeur ) passionately ; one has such a feeling of power.

Many of the pins of the I / O portions of the 6530s were connected to two connectors on the edge of the board, where they could be used as a serial system for driving a Teletype Model 33 ASR and paper tape reader / punch ).

So I ended up driving from work every Wednesday to rehearse with them.

After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on.

`` No, you cannot '', I said, pushing aside the water jar he offered to me.

She has said it is a " house for adults ", " And even though I'm pushing 60 I don't feel that I'm that old yet.

Following the ousting of Napoleon I in 1814, the Coalition restored the Bourbon Dynasty in pushing Louis XVIII to the French throne.

In the opening scene of episode 6, series 1 ( 2010 ), of the British drama Downton Abbey, Mary Crawley, pushing her wheel chair bound cousin Matthew Crawley across the lawn in the Summer of 1918 says, " I shall have arms like Jack Johnson if I'm not careful.

Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.

Burke explained in 2004: " I felt a little unsafe about it, because they were pushing me in an ethnic market, so why would I want to say that ( about soap ) to my people?

He said, " Enzo and I are very much interested in pushing boundaries, both as artists and for our audiences.

The attendant appearance on BBC Television's Top of the Pops brought Slade to a wider audience as well as pushing " Coz I Luv You " to number one in the UK charts.

Christian people, being fed up with divisions, are pushing their church leaders to do something about church unity and I am sure that the Holy Spirit is inspiring us.

I don't think anyone is pushing for a reunion either.

He kept pushing me in games when I didn't have good stuff.

Later when asked what it felt like, I said, " It was as though angels were pushing.

' Much obliged ,' said he, pushing the plate aside, ' I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

Half-way up I rather proudly looked at my legs, slowly pushing the pedals around, and the thought came " If I went on doing this for long enough I could get to India.

: I see river tides still pushing that " sampan " ( an Asian boat ),

" Sidney Redmond agreed that the Gaines family " doesn't seem too much concerned — and never was as I recall " about finding him due to their resentment of the civil rights ' organization's role in pushing Lloyd Gaines into the public eye without adequately providing for or protecting him.