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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.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time. Brian Nicola
grows ifs
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
growing-up women thinking
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.
growth credit might
There might be some credit in being jolly.
growing-up people needs
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts
growing-up book comic
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Alan Ritchson
growing late critique
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
growing bigs distrust
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
growing-up school boys
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
growing-up hands world
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
improved people stand
We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose. Goran Persson
improved last team week worked
We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.
improved progress week work
We're a work in progress right now, but we've improved from week to week, Terry Hoeppner
improved school wilson
She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back. Joseph Nye
improved increase preparing rate second since worked
Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude. Simon van der Meer
improved life quality
We have improved the quality of life for so many people.
improved
Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season, Jurgen Klinsmann
improved last year
Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.
improved inside instead last year
She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.
referrals comfortable comfortable-in-your-own-skin
It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do. Chad Channing
referee says
Liam says Hayles nudged him first and the referee has said he will have a look at the video. Gary Johnson
referendum
The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people. Nicola Sturgeon
reference
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
references
Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns. Brooke Shields
referred texts
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
referee stopped
If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it. Lindsey Graham
referring work
I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.
referred tom
When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks? Bryan Batt
regardless whatever
Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives. Tim Tebow
regardless
Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do. Alex Newell
regardless whether
No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.
regardless
I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.
regardless supposed
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics. Edward Witten
regardless running top whether
I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom. Ichiro Ozawa
regardless
Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African. Donald Johanson
regardless
Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.
regardless
That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation. Ben Wallace
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon