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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
judgement amplification youth
Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria. Alan Jay Lerner
judgement mind world
A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous. Byron Katie
judgement brain substitutes
Brains are no substitute for judgement. Dean Acheson
judgement feelings bitter
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Charlotte Bronte
judgement too-much directors
You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much. Charlotte Gainsbourg
judgement fool conviction
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions. Baltasar Gracian
judgement littles sometimes
A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus Brian Jacques
judgement morality action
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality. Ayn Rand
judgement enemy politics
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. Alberto Gonzales
would-be overwhelmed numb
That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy. Alanis Morissette
would-be film bigs
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible. Chloe Sevigny
would-be colony
What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial". Dave Barry
would-be assuming narcissism
It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live. Bryan Fuller
would-be action amazed
You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of. L. Ron Hubbard
would-be motivational-business workforce
Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. Bill Rancic
would-be ifs indescribable
Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable. Edward Gorey
would-be want chains
I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have. Arthur Rubinstein
would-be investigation faculty
A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome. Antonin Artaud