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eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world. Charles Dickens
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. Charles Caleb Colton
eye sight sore-eyes
the sight of me is good for sore eyes Charles Dickens
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. Charles Dickens
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. Charles Dickens
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror. Charles Dickens
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. Charles Dickens
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. Charles Dickens
failing
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand! David Mitchell
failing exception
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive. Calamity Jane
failing managers ifs
If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Mark Cuban
failing excellent projects
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up. Eddie Izzard
failing
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor. Diego Klattenhoff
failing cigarette score
Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. Earl Weaver
failing models rely
A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail. Charlie Munger
failing preparing-to-fail preparing
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
failing danger
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing. Ben Bernanke
calamity greater me-alone
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. Boyle Roche
calamity connected four hundred lived nearly necessity people plain
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. Donald Ray Pollock
calamity dead regional
There is about to be a big calamity if something isn't done soon. Without the regional centers, we are dead in the water. John Pinkerton
calamity elect shall therefore
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious. Peter Lombard
calamity disaster great
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
calamity chance equal humanity intact prove singular year
We have started a new year with a singular chance to prove that our humanity is intact and well -- a chance to prove that when calamity strikes, we are equal to the task, Kofi Annan
calamity crucial good poised special teams
Special teams have been good all the time. We just had a calamity in one game. Like anything else, we just need to be poised in crucial situations. Sylvester Croom
calamity lost percent unless
It wouldn't be a calamity unless we lost another 5 (percent) to 10 percent of capacity, Gene Gillespie
calamity civil discord fire strife
Stoking the fire of sectarian discord and civil strife will be a calamity for all, Saudi Arabia