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wall eye glasses
Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India. Charles Dickens
wall night men
As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
wall men old-buildings
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.
wall government becoming
I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. Alan Greenspan
wall nice writing
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word. Alan Bennett
wall book creative
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. Al Seckel
wall player four
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you. Al Lopez
wall thinking people
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! Al Lewis
wall law agency
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. Chris Chocola
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
rude examination awakening
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination. Catherine Crier
rude rays brilliant
I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous! Bear Grylls
rude friendly being-rude
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly. Edgar Friedenberg
rudeness folly knows
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none. Ben Jonson
rude ego tables
Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more. Amy Poehler
rudeness courtesy insufferable
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. Bryant H. McGill
rude enemy literature
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
rude fame
The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody. Barack Obama
rude one-day cost
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear. Brother Lawrence