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wise wisdom juan
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. Carlos Castaneda
wise dark garden
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid. C. S. Lewis
wise fate brave
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Agnes Repplier
wise cavemen scratches
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Alan Kay
wise son night
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid. Charlotte Bronte
wise thinking likes-and-dislikes
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none Charlotte Bronte
wise strong humble
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts. Charles de Gaulle
wise wisdom thinking
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Charles de Lint
wise laughter people
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Charles Dickens
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
goodness disposition
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. Jane Austen
goodness easier be-good
It's so much easier to do good than to be good. B. C. Forbes
goodness capacity
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it. Bill Johnson
goodness fairs
How near to good is what is fair! Ben Jonson
goodness expenses moral-perfection
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. Benjamin Franklin
goodness ends all-things
The good is the end toward which all things tend. Boethius
goodness divine
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God. C. S. Lewis
goodness ohio played state
My goodness, I played at Ohio State from 1957-59, Jim Houston
select
But the way it happened, after it was all over, it was unanimous that we select Erskine. John Davies
selection
Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. Peter Agre
selection whatever
We said from Selection Sunday, from that day on, whatever happens, we're going to come out to play to win. Dion Harris
selected
Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few. Stefan Hell
selection
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.... Bergen Evans
selective time
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it. Jonathan Safran Foer
selected several teammate voted year
She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players. Jim Kerr
select ability
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient. Donald Trump
selection
Read my lips. No selection by examination or interview. David Blunkett