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mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean atheism knaves
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
mean men dresses
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. Charles Dickens
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
apes facts hiccups
At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time. Bo Burnham
apes absurd
It is absurd to ape our betters. Aesop
apes said damn
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things. Helena Bonham Carter
apes terrible irrational
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. George Santayana
apes habit ifs
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly Francis Bacon
apes degrees anthropology
My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. Gregory Keyes
apes speak found
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. Friedrich Nietzsche
apes tails higher
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.] George Herbert
apes beast
The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us. Quintus Ennius
chaos losing defeated
Chaos is always losing, but never defeated Alan Watts
chaos mines died
I have died too many deaths that were not mine. Audre Lorde
chaos amazement nothingness
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? Arthur Rimbaud
chaos
chaos: it has no plural. Carlos Fuentes
chaos ends built
The end is built into the beginning. Charlie Kaufman
chaos mathematics mankind
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. Benoit Mandelbrot
chaos complete explosions looking
We're looking at complete chaos in New Orleans, with explosions and uncontrolled fires, Robert Hartwig
chaos clean creating extend hoping hurt kicked maggie rose slept
Maggie slept with him because she wanted to hurt Rose, to get back at her, ... Also Rose had just kicked her out and she was hoping by creating this chaos that Rose would have to clean it up and that would extend her stay, but it backfired. Cameron Diaz
chaos mines
Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan