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wise words-of-wisdom godmother
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. Charles Caleb Colton
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
asking-questions people understanding
If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
asking-questions firsts first-time
The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions. Bing Gordon
asking-questions asking selling
Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling. Brian Tracy
asking-questions stories literature
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most. Diane Sawyer
asking-questions new-life four
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler for it, steal for it, beg for it-and you're never to stop asking questions about it twenty-four hours a day, the rest of your life. Douglas Coupland
asking-questions asking
Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions. Anne Frank
asking-questions sick answers
I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to. Ann Aguirre
asking-questions literature asking
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. Anne Rice
asking-questions police ordinary
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. Anthony Kennedy
shells who-we-are
What we wear is the shell of who we are. Audrey Tautou
shells trouble force
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? C. S. Lewis
shells dutch royal
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. Charlie Munger
shells littles likes
I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes. Ashley Tisdale
shells young young-women
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells Bettie Page
shells may victim
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future. James Surowiecki
shells saws
She saw through the shell of me into the center of me Jonathan Safran Foer
shells evolution
E canchis amnia. Everything from shells. Erasmus Darwin
shells want cracks
There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all. Cassandra Clare