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block rocks regularity
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. Charles Sturt
block causes christ
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ! Charles Spurgeon
block fall blue
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. Alan Moore
block artist paralyzed
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. David Guterson
block together world
The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together. Cesar Pelli
block moving men
Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm. ? Camille Paglia
block winter long
money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age. Caitlin Thomas
block athlete emotional
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person. Carl Lewis
block unemployment writers-block
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. Carl Hiaasen
function reader good-fun
Entertaining the reader is a good function. David Denby
function less poor talented whenever
Whenever something like that happens, it's always a function of poor organization less than poor talented people. Bob Young
function rational
It is not music's function to express rational necessities. Artur Schnabel
function easier harder
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. Brian Wilson
functionality
90% of the functionality delivered now is better than 100% delivered never. Brian Kernighan
function human position
I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Kate Bush
function market perform shorts useful
Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
function
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
functional
We need to make it a more functional area.
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage? Charles Caleb Colton
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation. Chogyam Trungpa
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide." Charles Dickens
past self years
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last. Charles Studd
past done lasts
Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past years judging
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past puppets driven
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
prophecy equations
An equation is a prophecy that always comes true. Catherynne M. Valente
prophecy
I always looked ahead. Chris Evert
prophecy happens
Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again. Elbert Hubbard
prophecy wells happens
Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens. George Noory
prophecy
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible. Tim LaHaye
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
successful men errors
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
successful mud viruses
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
successful coins tossers
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. Alan Greenspan
successful stuff way
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
successful thinking next
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this. Alan Bennett
successful strive do-the-best
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do. Alan Ball
successful animal different
We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful. Alan Alda
ultimate
Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate. Casey Neistat
ultimate
Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. Bill Owens
ultimately upheld
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts. Lloyd Cutler
ultimate
Getting to Omaha, that's the ultimate goal. If I batted .100 and we made it there, then I would feel like I succeeded.
ultimate-success going-the-extra-mile great-success
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. Charles Kendall Adams
ultimately
I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible. Helen Thomas
ultimate
I say God is the ultimate. Donald Trump
ultimate
Brainpower is the ultimate leverage
ultimately
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end. Bhagat Singh
visions-of-the-future amendments situation
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin
visions-of-the-future people release
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. Barbara Jordan
visions-of-the-future community done
In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future Daniel J. Boorstin
visions
Our respective governments have very different visions for the hemisphere.
visions-of-the-future glasses forever
If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever. Julian Assange
visions-of-the-future trying figures
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are. Nolan Bushnell
visions-of-the-future towers fields
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. John Betjeman
visions-of-the-future ipads expression
The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing. Tim Cook
visions-of-the-future issues flying-cars
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars. Joss Whedon