The one I love
Is striking me down on my knees
The one I love
Drowning me in my dreams
The one I love
Over and over again
Dragging me under
If you want to earn something, you need to reach out for it. To make your ambitions come true, you have to take risks. The larger the ambition the greater the risk. That might involve time or enough work to affect your lifespan… So make your choice. Live in peace as a wannabe or risk losing it all to reach the very top.
– It's an appalling school. Your spelling's atrocious. Your Latin absurd.
– Mr. Davis said it was as useful to educate a woman as a cat…
– I'll strangle Mr. Davis!..
– "Mr. Davis... What right have you to strike a child? In God's eyes we are all children. If you hit and humiliate a child, – the only lesson she will learn is to hit and humiliate".
I'm on my knees in front of him
but he doesn't seem to see me.
To win, but not destroy; to conquer, but not humiliate: that is what true conquest is!
— Do you have any idea what time it is?
— Actually, no.
— My new carpet!
— Well, this is coming right out of your security deposit.
— You know...
— What?
— Nothing.
— Well, that's what you are, Ipkiss, a big nothing.
— Aren't you due at the lab to get your bolts tightened?
— I should have said that.
You have been weighed, you have been measured... and you have been found wanting.
How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.