![In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-my-life-i-did-not-understand-steam-machinery-but-i-tried-to-understand.jpg)
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
pieces film periods
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. Cary Elwes
pieces
We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there, Charlotte Moore
pieces paper littles
I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it. Eartha Kitt
pieces advantage existence
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. David Hume
pieces finest sells
I don't like to sell my finest pieces. Beatrice Wood
pieces silent refuse
to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent. Audre Lorde
pieces sometimes used
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. Derek Bailey
pieces reinterpretation materials
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. Denzel Washington
pieces lasts tools
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool. Elizabeth Olsen
complicated machinery cradle
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. Kurt Vonnegut
complicated abandoned
Recently abandoned women can be complicated. Elizabeth Kostova
complicated problem curious
Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious. Carl Andre
complicated
Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated... Avril Lavigne
complicated
Don't complicate whatever is not complicated. Demian Bichir
complicated problem sometimes
By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated. Ashleigh Brilliant
complicated messy flawed
Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy. Brit Marling
complicated problem no-problem
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated. Andy Grove
complicated term concessions
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make. Charles Cumming