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winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. Charles Dickens
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. Charles Caleb Colton
winter sea feet
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. Charles Dickens
winter smell ghost-stories
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it. Charles Dickens
winter thinking important
Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter Diane Setterfield
winter years benefits
Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. David Suzuki
winter green bowling
I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it. Jamie Sives
winter men thinking
The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
winter fate bored
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom Charles Baudelaire
snow moral-corruption rolling
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. Charles Caleb Colton
snow dying jamestown
Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow, Dick Armey
snowboarding years body
I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. Dave Barry
snowboarding people literature
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. Dave Barry
snowboarding people ugh
In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that." Cary Fukunaga
snow fiction world
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. James Wolcott
snow mountain thrill
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it. Edmund Hillary
snow ends living-happily
...snow is the beginning and the end of everything... Catherynne M. Valente
snow evil crow
Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it Charles Simic
tree remember remember-me
Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me. C. S. Lewis
tree shade way
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Charles Dickens
tree alive mulberry
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. Jane Austen
tree world this-world
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. Alan Watts
tree sun bigs
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. Chinua Achebe
tree lizards praise
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did. Chinua Achebe
tree pebbles branches
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me. Cheryl Strayed
tree fool fruit
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. Chanakya
tree pity form
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. Charlaine Harris