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wind roots tree
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
doe should sensible
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe. C. S. Lewis
doe
One does not arrest Voltaire.
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe attention loops
Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention. David Allen
doe sense-of-humor persons
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. David Rakoff
doe mets accomplished
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. Jane Austen
doe widows remarriage
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
doe sincerity emma
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
doe action futility
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - Janette Turner Hospital