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games two lawyer
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant. Charles Dickens
games words-of-wisdom delight
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. Charles Stross
games play self
The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. Alan Watts
games fire giving
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away. Alan Moore
games goal able
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals. Alan Green
games gambling casinos
The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. Al Alvarez
games gambling cards
Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
given no-hope pledge
God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill. Charles Spurgeon
given guy guys perception
The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a given that he's going to win. Lee Janzen
given park rules
We've already given them an extension. It's really simple: The rules of the park have to be followed. Sharon Stewart
given life lived name people talk tony
I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. Nicolas Roeg
given movies sad
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
given relevant considering
I have given up considering happiness as relevant. Edward Gorey
given hoard wealth
Wealth that you hoard is not yours; wealth that you have given is really yours. Sathya Baba
given heck love sharks shocked
What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it. Luc Robitaille
given
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. Bill McKibben
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
nearly politics turn
You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns. Clive Sinclair
nearly town work
Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week, Gary Roberts
nearly people screen
There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead. Romola Garai
nearly perfect rain
For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.
nearly played solid stepped
Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.
nearly public
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. Paul Gillmor
nearly
What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.
nearly
It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off. Mark McKinney
nearly
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. Jami Attenberg
opportunity deuces letters
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.
opportunity men often-is
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
opportunity female lovers
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Our extremities are God's opportunities.
opportunity honor denial
When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
opportunity voice people
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
pitchers variety
She has a variety of pitchers that make her successful.
pitchers strike
Most pitchers have one pitch to strike out batters. Derek has three.
pitchers ran shut year
We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down.
pitchers state top
Right now I think we have two of the top pitchers in the state on our team. Kelly Ryan
pitchers playing
Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively. Darin Erstad
pitchers starting struggle unusual
I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.
pitchers
I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me.
pitchers starting
Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks. George Vecsey
pitchers quality
He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough. Brian Sabean
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
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.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.