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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
defy majority none senate unilateral
The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.' Ted Cruz
defy large loans numbers sea window
When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans looming large on the horizon. The numbers defy logic. Jack Rodman
defy fanny gentle given heroines jane subversive supposed utterly
She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army. Susanna Clarke
defy fictional fill magic places science seeing supposed talking technology truly wink
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
defy fall providence readiness special
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. William Shakespeare
defy organize people program
People will defy the curfew order, and we will organize the program as planned.
defy fall gravity lean seemed swear
Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.
defying example ultimate
I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds. Dana Reeve
defying love
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. Gwendoline Christie
nuclear weapons acquisition
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. Benjamin Netanyahu
nuclear problem
We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.
nuclear weapons mass
If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too. Alan Sugar
nuclear technology valuable
U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. Charles Bass
nuclear-terrorism forever suffering
Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe. Ban Ki-moon
nuclear-disarmament world path
Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.
nuclear looks comedy
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. Billy Connolly
nuclear foundation trouble
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. Jane Jacobs
nuclear bombs physicist
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? Edward Abbey
stay-strong sleep order
Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't. Byron Katie
stay
We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.
stay-strong disappointment stronger
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future. Blanka Vlasic
stay-strong fun cost
I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film. Dean Cain
stays
We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.
stay-strong healthy problem
My main problem has been staying healthy.
stayed
My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin. Leonid Hurwicz
stay
We're going to stay with the old rule,
stay together
We're going to stay together and get through this.
strengthen
We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA. Bob Graham
strengthening opposition loses
What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules. Hosni Mubarak
strengthen
The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.
strengthening authoritarianism authoritarian-government
The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin
treaty wide
My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict. Kate Winslet
treaty
It is a treaty which does not have reciprocity. Menzies Campbell