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wind roots tree
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising." Charles Dickens
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. Charles Dickens
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
choices justified introduction
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems. Carl Friedrich Gauss
choices relation
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both. C. S. Lewis
choices customers feeling good leaving stores themselves walked
We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made. Paul Clayton
choices want trouble
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. Agnes Repplier
choices actors playing-someone
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things. Aaron Tveit
choices president crystals
I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear. Charlie Crist
choices age dies
Each age has its choice of the death it will die. Charles Dudley Warner
choices accountability
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. Charles de Lint
choices fruit good-intentions
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. Charles Simmons
littles want said
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray. C. S. Lewis
littles too-much may
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. Agnetha Faltskog
littles watches film
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. Agnes Varda
littles ethics common
Economics and ethics have little in common. Agnes Repplier
littles underestimate influence
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things Charles W. Chesnutt
littles
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little. Charles de Gaulle
littles arcs knows
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. Charles de Gaulle
littles making-money easy
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. Charles Dickens
littles wealth rich
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. Charles Caleb Colton