{"quotes":[{"text":"Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["across","bad-friends","close","companion","courteous","courtesy","door","door-post","doorpost","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","good-friends","intimacy","intimate","israelmore-ayivor","narrow","reserve","spread","trust","trusted","trustworthy","wide"],"id":29346,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.","author":"John Green","tags":["across","come","dying","houten","like","only","person","peter","seem","understand","van"],"id":44656,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acronym","across","acrostics","bitch","edit","editing","editing-humor","itch","itch-the-book","poems","poetry","scratch","scratching","ticking","tics","write","writer","writers-and-writing","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-books","writing-craft"],"id":70346,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred, we see the reduction of health care for the poor, sick and elderly.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["across","biologically","care","deployment","device","devices","elderly","frequency","harmful","health","ill","mass","massive","occurred","poor","population","radiation","radio","reduction","rf","same","see","sick","time","we"],"id":105623,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.","author":"Conn Iggulden","tags":["across","beat","enjoying","himself","involved","life","pulse","risk","shoulders","smiled","sung-win","tension","veins","way"],"id":166114,"author_id":"Conn+Iggulden"},{"text":"Night after night on starry wingsNight lovers soared so highMiles apart, across the oceansTheir love forgot to sighIn heavenly flight’s timelessnessThat highest height treasuredInto the deepest of all bluesTheir depth of love measured.From the poem 'The Ballad of Night Lovers.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["across","apart","ballad","blue","blues","depth","distance","height","highest","longdistance","love","love","lovers","miles","night","poem","poems","poetry","poetry","poetry","sigh","starry","timeless","timelessness","treasured","verse","wings"],"id":175979,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you’ll never have reason to apply it to yourself.\tAcross the fields of yesterday,\tHe sometimes comes to me\tA little lad just back from play—\tThe boy I used to be.\tHe looks at me so wistfully\tWhen once he’s crept within;\tIt is as if he hoped to see\tThe man I might have been.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["a","across","an","apply","as","at","back","be","been","before","boy","careful","choices","comes","could","crept","fields","forgotten","from","has","have","he","he-s","hope","hoped","i","if","is","it","just","lad","later","life","little","looks","make","man","me","might","never","now","of","old","once","play","poem","reason","regret","see","so","sometimes","subject","that","the","this","to","used","when","whose","wistfully","within","yesterday","you","you-ll","your","yourself"],"id":201678,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["across","bar","barrier","critical","critical-tool","deny","excel","excellence","fact","food-for-thought","inform","information","israelmore-ayivor","know","knowledge","learn","lift","maintain","millimeter","raise","raise-the-bar","static","study"],"id":209417,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to educate people on the issues of Personal Responsibility. If a nation or rather active citizens of a nation could successfully launch such campaigns and a good percentage of the populace begin to live by the principles of Personal Responsibility, which is “don’t blame others”, think of what you can do to fix it. Such a nation would cross the huddle of civilization in a record time.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["across","educate","land","movements","nation","ngo","people","personal","responsibility","societies","transformed","truly"],"id":227616,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Had a cold hummus with pita bread, Under a delicious food, yellow or red. Might just have the appetite to cook Urgent dinner by hook or crook.So that's just a humus humor spread.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["across","acrostic","bread","dinner","food","hummus","humor","humorous","humour","humour","humourous-situations","humus","jokes","limerick","pita","poems","poetry","puns","spreading","words"],"id":250570,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}