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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
holy-grail black frost
It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful. Alan Bennett
holy-grail poor substitutes
The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail. Joseph A. Schumpeter
holy-grail ugly tails
When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Graham Chapman
holy-grail stories care
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics. Glen Mazzara
holy-grail done rhetorical-question
What have the Romans ever done for us? John Cleese
holy-grail brain information
The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain. Thomas R. Insel
holy-grail insane economy
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. William Vickrey
holy-grail one-piece top-gear
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed. Steve Sabol
holy-grail gross capitalism
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. Stewart Udall
tiny shut-up please
Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied. Darren Shan
tiny problem trouble
My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook. Bill Watterson
tiny feels stills
When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it. Ben Schwartz
tiny realistic plastic
I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. Amy Lee
tiny worked
I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people. Allison Tolman
tiny four want
I've been tiny since I was four, and I eat whatever I want. Alessandra Ambrosio
tiny disappointing bigs
What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others. Alain de Botton
tiny cups waterfalls
All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too. Edwidge Danticat
tiny goes-on littles
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant. David Foster Wallace