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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
measurement bars standards
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. Dick Costolo
measurement experts opinion
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. Donald Sutherland
measurement language moments
Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit. Damon Galgut
measurement measure-for-measure can-not
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. Lord Kelvin
measurement experts opinion
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. Grace Hopper
measurement records phonograph
They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78! Phyllis Diller
measurement property
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured. Niels Bohr
measurement measure-for-measure cant-change
If you can't measure it, you can't change it. Peter Drucker
measurement legs surprise
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? Penelope Wilton
description elsewhere
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach. Jane Austen
description distortion used
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. Anthony de Mello
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject. Gaston Bachelard
description
The description is not the described. Jiddu Krishnamurti
description multiple
Multiple descriptions are better than one. Gregory Bateson
description chains
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. John Fowles
description explanation
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. Ludwig Wittgenstein
description observation left
The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation. John Archibald Wheeler
description
A picture is never anything but its own plural description. Roland Barthes