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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living. Charles Caleb Colton
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. Charles Caleb Colton
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. Charles Caleb Colton
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. Charles Caleb Colton
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. Charles Caleb Colton
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon. Charles Caleb Colton
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. Charles Caleb Colton
tyrants reign weak
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
tyrants use injustice
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
tyrants conservative rebellion
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin
tyrants today rebel
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. Will Durant
tyrants age democracy
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. Alexis de Tocqueville
tyrants ears tyranny
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? Juvenal
tyrants natural natural-death
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. Juvenal
tyrants done dictator
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. Dennis Prager
tyrants states dealings
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. Demosthenes
savages manners
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. Benjamin Franklin
savages states refusal
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. Arthur Brisbane
savages needs scales
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage. Denis Diderot
savages body clubs
The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute? Aleister Crowley
savages foundation essentials
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery. Andrei Sakharov
savages handsome way
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. David Gemmell
savages fierce get-away
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. Octavia Butler
savages
Vitriolic really is personal. I am vitriolic. I am savage. Gore Vidal
savages lucky cost
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. Jean-Paul Sartre