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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. Charles Caleb Colton
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same. Charles Caleb Colton
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. Charles Dickens
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. Charles Dickens
football violent fascists
I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.) Charles Stross
football league should
I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it. Alan Pardew
football league noise
Shut your noise, you old c***! Alan Pardew
football zero games
How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero. Alan Page
football successful player
The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time. Alan Page
football philosophy thinking
I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go. Alan Hansen
football laughing missing
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh. Alan Hansen
football blow watches
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch. Alan Green
football playing-football commentators
Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing Alan Green
microscope potential telescope
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? Victor Hugo
microscope might shows weird
It's weird because we are under the microscope in a way that other shows might not be. Paul Rudd
microscopes wells havens
I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well. Lamar Odom
microscopes ifs
If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong William Jennings Bryan
microscopes skepticism existence
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred. Stanislaw Lem
silence argument weak
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. Charles Caleb Colton
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply. Charles Caleb Colton
silence assertion
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence? Charles Dickens
silence stopping looks
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. Alan Watts
silence answers critics
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Aiden Wilson Tozer
silence building crescendo
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence tragedy might
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence trying remember
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things. David Shapiro
silence silent minutes
If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought. Byron Katie
steps backing-up steady
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. Alan Bean
step
We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play. David Cornwell
steps surprise reader
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself. Dave Gibbons
steps tough push-yourself
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in. Bryan Clay
steps comfort grows
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW. Bear Grylls
steps problem illegal
Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in. Antonis Samaras
steps commencement experiments
One failed experiment is one step closer to Success Denzel Washington
steps should
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
steps looks hard
It's hard to see things when you're too close. Take a step back and look. Bob Ross
team people dementors
I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here Alan Pardew
team cups world
I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup. Alan Hansen
team cups needs
The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team. Alan Hansen
teamwork littles best-team
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. Alain Prost
team people helping
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. Alain Prost
team frogs tadpoles
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. Alain Prost
team compromise building
You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise. Alain Prost
team numbers
There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe. Al Michaels
team taken miami-dolphins
The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling. Al Michaels
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Charles Caleb Colton
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton
waiting encounters danger
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. Charles Caleb Colton
waiting devil ready
When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready. Charles Dickens
waiting doe timing
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. Charles Stanley
waiting objects values
Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for. Charles Stanley
waiting ifs
Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Charles Spurgeon
waiting listening connections
If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can. Alan Alda
waiting sitting actors
An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying. Al Pacino
waiting world resurrection
We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait. Aiden Wilson Tozer
waiting busy dangerous
It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God. Aiden Wilson Tozer